@finlaydag33k JavaScript totally fails ease of use if you actually compile the supporting software to compile rather than someone doing it all for you and passing around mystery meat binaries.

Deno relies on the "V8 engine" and rust, which means to use it requires the compilation of "V8", LLVM and rustc and the massive dependency chains, which takes many CPU cycles and a huge amount of RAM to compile and chances are it'll fail to compile multiple times too.

I wouldn't describe such setup as anywhere near "lean", but it is mean to at least one person and their computer.


Meanwhile, I can just emerge perl from the source code and in a few short minutes get a working perl runtime.

Or I can just emerge gcc from the source code (oh wait, already installed) and in an acceptable amount of time have the best C compiler.