• @fonji@sopuli.xyz
    0•6 days ago

    Then marketing comes around, asks to add google tag manager, and proceeds to make the client download 10TB of tracking librairies.

    At least node_modules don’t directly impact the browser.

  • @WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0•6 days ago

    Depending on the design of its memory, a device with a full drive will literally weigh slightly more or slightly less than one with an empty drive. Charging the battery in all cases causes it to weigh more.

  • andyburke
    0•6 days ago

    lol at 3/4 of a megabyte of Vue components being ok and thinking node_modules is the issue at hand.

  • bjorney
    0•6 days ago

    > want to compile 50kb C++ console app on windows

    > 6 GB MSVC installation

    • @arty@feddit.org
      0•6 days ago

      I keep seeing complaints from non JavaScript developers about their IDE not handling millions of files in a folder properly

          • @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
            0•6 days ago

            Okay that’s fair. I fricked around with some C++ numerics BLAS header library (I think it was Eigen) on Linux before that was complicated and annoying too. The ARM Fast Models simulator was also a pain. Maybe I just don’t like C++ development now that I think about it.

            C mostly worked okay for me though. And I agree Rust tooling is nice, but admittedly I have not really worked on a big project in it.

            • @barsoap@lemm.ee
              0•5 days ago

              NixOS. Gentoo gets into trouble when you need multiple versions of the same library at the same time. Also while the infrastructure supports it it’s annoying that gentoo doesn’t provide pre-built binaries, like yes some people might want to have reason to build their own bash but I think I’ll be fine with a standard build. NixOS? If you install something usually it’s going to be pre-built. Change a couple of configuration flags? May or may not be pre-built. You want to apply a custom patch? It’s going to seamlessly build from source.

          • Something Burger 🍔
            0•6 days ago

            compiling C/C++ apps on any platform is shit

            I’m starting to think the platforms aren’t the problem.

      • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
        0•6 days ago

        I don’t know about “fine”. It has a lot of weird stuff baked in. Hoisting. Unexpected type coercion. Too many ways to loop over something and I always forget which one is which. “There’s more than one way to do it” is kind of a recurring problem, come to think of it. Several function declaration syntaxes. Dot notation AND bracket notation for objects.

        Also it will forever bother me that object keys aren’t quoted.

        const foo = "hello"; const bar = { foo: "world" }

        That should be, in my mind, { "hello": "world" } . It’s not. It’s { "foo": "world" }

        But if you want to do that, you need to do const bar = { [foo]: world }. Which looks like your key is an array with one entry, a string with a value of “foo”

        You also end up learning a whole framework, with its syntax and idioms, every couple years. Angular. React. Redux. Whatever.

        There’s also a lot of people who have never used anything else, and want to use javascript for everything.

        Javascript is basically D&D. Wildly popular. Full of legacy jank. People try to use it for anything even though there are better or more specialized tools.

        • @SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
          0•6 days ago

          No need to convince me it’s shit. Also how do you end up only knowing Javascript? Who the hell starts out using Javascript of all the languages?

          • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
            0•6 days ago

            Anyone entering through web development. If you’re self taught or did a “coding boot camp”, it might be the only language you’ve used. A lot of places use it for backend stuff now, too

        • Lemminary
          0•6 days ago

          After reading the JS Bible and listening to a lot of Kyle Simpson, I don’t find any of those unusual or unexpected, but rather neat in the context of the language. And with enough practice, even the implicit return of an arrow functions jumps out at you.

            • Lemminary
              0•22 hours ago

              Well, I don’t think it’s a bad language necessarily. It’s a language that works, and it’s a tool that’s tried and true. Stick to the good parts and you’re good.

      • Phoenixz
        0•6 days ago

        Oh Hells no.

        JavaScript is NOT fine, it’s … I’m really trying to think of a word that will convey the shit that it is without triggering half the people on Lemmy into an aneurysm, but I can’t find it.

        JavaScript is by far the worst. I’ve been working with JavaScript for the past 6 days and I want to hang myself, it’d be a better fate than continuing

        • @Hoimo@ani.social
          0•5 days ago

          Yeah, I had some webpages archived and tried to use javascript to clean them up, but I ended up parsing it as xml through Powershell instead. I’ve done something with Python and BeautifulSoup too, a long time ago. Both much easier than JS, but somehow JS is designed to work with web pages? Make it make sense.

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)
        0•6 days ago

        Use the modulo operator? Nah. Need to import the isEven library and a ton of other unnecessary sub-50 LOC libraries “maintained” by a single dev to make their CV look more impressive. /s

      • @i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
        0•6 days ago

        Excuse me, but it’s industry practice to always use PlusJs.

        Its just annoying that it has its own dependency on MinusJs.