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blt ◴[16 Apr 25 20:33 UTC] No.43710058[source]▶
Sorry for being a grumpy old man, but I don't have npm on my machine and I never will. It's a bit frustrating to see more and more CLI tools depending on it.
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1. John23832 ◴[16 Apr 25 20:37 UTC] No.43710092[source]▶
I asked the same question for Anthropic's version of this. Why is all of this in JS?
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2. photonthug ◴[16 Apr 25 20:43 UTC] No.43710167[source]▶
Tree-sitter related bits probably
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3. ◴[16 Apr 25 20:45 UTC] No.43710201[source]▶
4. parhamn ◴[16 Apr 25 20:55 UTC] No.43710294[source]▶
JS is web's (and "hip" developer's) python, and in many ways it is better. Also the tooling is getting a lot better (libraries, typescript, bundling, packaging, performance).

One thing I wonder that could be cool: when Bun has sufficient NodeJS compatibility the should ship bun --compile versions so you dont need node/npm on the system.

Then it's arguably a, "why not JS?"

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5. throwaway314155 ◴[16 Apr 25 21:19 UTC] No.43710501[source]▶
> and in many ways it is better

Right but is it worth having to write JS?

/s (kinda)

6. AstroBen ◴[16 Apr 25 21:24 UTC] No.43710560[source]▶
typescript is a pretty nice language to work with. why not?
7. emporas ◴[16 Apr 25 21:24 UTC] No.43710563[source]▶
tree-sitter is a C library though. Only grammars for each particular lang are defined in javascript.