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What are the recent improvements in node itself? Last actually note-worthy improvement I heard of was properly supporting import/export (although do you still need to use the .mjs hack?), but I've been out of the loop here for sometime so would be nice to know what they've added since.
Small but lovely addition for me is the ability to load .env files natively. There’s more like this; small, focused, real-world-improving features.
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Package and environment management are both pretty commonly brought up.
I work with Node every day, and the library ecosystem is a nightmare. Just keeping a project from falling apart takes a huge amount of effort. Libraries are either abandoned when the author moves on, or they push major releases almost every month. And there’s a new CVE practically every week. Python libraries are much more stable and reliable.
Basically this: https://xkcd.com/1987/
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Package and environment management are both pretty commonly brought up.
I work with Node every day, and the library ecosystem is a nightmare. Just keeping a project from falling apart takes a huge amount of effort. Libraries are either abandoned when the author moves on, or they push major releases almost every month. And there’s a new CVE practically every week. Python libraries are much more stable and reliable.
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This has nothing to do with the "node world". Such an enormous feature would have to go into ECMAScript. Which is very, very unlikely to ever happen, they may as well design a new language. All those runtimes implement that spec. Expecting them to write an extremely complex new feature that is easily more complicated than everything already implemented (especially with backwards compatibility, and given that the lang…
ECMAScript community is actually dipping their toes in the water of adding typing to the spec, and it's at Stage 1: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations . Now of course, this would only add type syntax to the language, not true processing: there's nothing in the spec about actually handling them. Still, it's a step in that direction, so I wouldn't say "very unlikely to ever happen" ... "still a long ways…