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514 points mfiguiere | 2 comments | 16 Apr 25 17:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.705s | source
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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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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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1. 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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2. 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)