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The tragedy of running an old Node project

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272 points abdisalan | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mvkel ◴[18 Nov 24 19:03 UTC] No.42175730[source]▶
> time to run it after not touching it for 4 years

> Two hours of my life gone...

Two hours of work after 4 years sounds ... perfectly acceptable?

And it would have run perfectly right away if the node version was specified, so a good learning, too

This feels like making a mountain out of a mole hill

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jonathanlydall ◴[19 Nov 24 12:09 UTC] No.42182564[source]▶
C# devs can open decade+ old solutions without issues, maybe this is just "normal" for the JavaScript ecosystem, but there absolutely exist other ecosystems which don't absolutely waste your time in this way.
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1. horsawlarway ◴[19 Nov 24 17:20 UTC] No.42185862[source]▶
As someone who has migrated old ASP/silverlight projects and BHOs... seriously, this is complete bullshit.

This depends highly on what dependencies are in your C# solution.

Same for his node project. If he'd stuck with dependencies that are just plain js - I'd bet money his project would have installed & built just fine.

By the time you're hitting the native addon apis and doing things like compiling python and C/C++ code... you're going to feel all the pains of those ecosystems too.