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ZeroCool2u ◴[25 Jun 25 13:39 UTC] No.44377226[source]▶
Ugh, I really wish this had been written in Go or Rust. Just something that produces a single binary executable and doesn't require you to install a runtime like Node.
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qsort ◴[25 Jun 25 13:50 UTC] No.44377341[source]▶
Projects like this have to update frequently, having a mechanism like npm or pip or whatever to automatically handle that is probably easier. It's not like the program is doing heavy lifting anyway, unless you're committing outright programming felonies there shouldn't be any issues on modern hardware.

It's the only argument I can think of, something like Go would be goated for this use case in principle.

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1. frollogaston ◴[25 Jun 25 22:52 UTC] No.44382533[source]▶
I don't think that's the main reason. Just installed this and peaked in node_nodules. There are a lot of random deps, probably for the various local capabilities, and it was probably easier to find those libs in the Node ecosystem than elsewhere.

Also, react-reconciler caught my eye. Apparently that's a dependency of ink, which lets you write text-based UIs in React.

That and opentelemetry, whatever the heck that is