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Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

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Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

#21

Who is going to maintain all of this in a few months or years when Facebook has moved on?

If they end up using Rome internally that should be a good sign that it will be supported for years to come. React has been very well maintained for the past 5+ years.

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

#24

Maybe this is intuitive to JS devs, but what are the advantages of "zero third-party dependencies" and "being a comprehensive tool for the processing of anything JS related" or any of the other selling points of Rome? It seems like an impressive project, but it's not obvious to me what its actual benefits are.

It's not intuitive to me as a JS dev too... Are you guys gonna re-implement typescript for example? Where does 'no deps' line get drawn?

Same, I don't mind having an alternative to webpack, but competing against prettier is going to be an uphill battle.

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

#25

Who is going to maintain all of this in a few months or years when Facebook has moved on?

If they end up using Rome internally that should be a good sign that it will be supported for years to come. React has been very well maintained for the past 5+ years.

I don't know. I don't think they stopped testing, but their open-source javascript testing framework jest has been unmaintained for a little while.

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

#26

Maybe this is intuitive to JS devs, but what are the advantages of "zero third-party dependencies" and "being a comprehensive tool for the processing of anything JS related" or any of the other selling points of Rome? It seems like an impressive project, but it's not obvious to me what its actual benefits are.

Have you used npm before? It's a complete mess.

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

#27

Maybe this is intuitive to JS devs, but what are the advantages of "zero third-party dependencies" and "being a comprehensive tool for the processing of anything JS related" or any of the other selling points of Rome? It seems like an impressive project, but it's not obvious to me what its actual benefits are.

Greatly reduce the likelihood of supply-chain attacks.

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

#29

I don't know if want this or if I really just want create-react-app for things that aren't react. A lot of tools do things Good Enough (which everyone disagrees on and will always fragment the ecosystem). But I do loathe setting up all the plumbing from scratch.

Quasar framework / cli is nice for vue.
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