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   Dominic White (singe@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 06:28:35 JST Dominic White

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   • Nolan

   @nolan I’m the exact opposite. No idea why some JS Promise is undefined because of the CORS policy. But an improperly linked library I can knee jerk fix.

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     Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 06:28:36 JST Nolan

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     Maybe this is why I'm a little skeptical of the whole "move everything to Rust/Zig/Go/etc" movement in the JS ecosystem. I like JavaScript, I understand JavaScript. If I have to debug some JS tool, I'm well-equipped. Whereas if I have to dip down into some weird error like "libfoo.so.42: cannot open shared object file" then I know I'm gonna get lost.

     Plus I don't think we've come close to exhausting all the ways to optimize JS deps: https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem/

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     Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 06:28:37 JST Nolan

     Every time I mess around with sysadmin stuff, I'm always flummoxed by dumb things like "what is the difference between /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin, what the heck is an LD_LIBRARY_PATH, should I use sudo for this build tool or not," etc.). I guess this is how backend devs feel when they have to tweak a Webpack config.