Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

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Post by pcr910303 » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 3:20 PM UTC

Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain
romejs.dev

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

#2

Post by eclipsetheworld » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 3:55 PM UTC

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22430682

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

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Post by dlbucci » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:16 PM UTC

This is a really exciting idea to me, but this website is pretty anemic (guessing it's a work in progress?). Kinda surprising to me, given the 7K stars on github. Maybe it should be submitted when it's a little more filled in?

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

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Post by georgestephanis » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:20 PM UTC

I mean, clarifying that it's in-progress is important.

After all, Rome wasn't built in a day.

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

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Post by throwaway894345 » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:23 PM UTC

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.

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

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Post by lhorie » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:24 PM UTC

dlbucci wrote: post #3

This is a really exciting idea to me, but this website is pretty anemic (guessing it's a work in progress?). Kinda surprising to me, given the 7K stars on github. Maybe it should be submitted when it's a little more filled in?

AFAIK, the high number of stars are because of who the author is.

Personally, considering how ambitious the project is, I was hoping they would go just a bit more ambitious and cover type checking as well (rather than just transpile out the syntax), otherwise we still need to install Typescript/flow and run their parsers independently from rome.

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

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Post by gear54rus » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:27 PM UTC

georgestephanis wrote: post #4

I mean, clarifying that it's in-progress is important. After all, Rome wasn't built in a day.

Cue the jokes.

And when you do something with your project they didn't anticipate their response would be: 'When in Rome...'.

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

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Post by felipellrocha » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:27 PM UTC

georgestephanis wrote: post #4

I mean, clarifying that it's in-progress is important. After all, Rome wasn't built in a day.

clap clap clap

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

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Post by baddox » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:27 PM UTC

throwaway894345 wrote: post #5

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.

I think the implicit benefit to doing it this way is that it will just work because there are likely few options and all combinations of those options will likely be tested and supported by the developers.

Re: Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

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Post by speedgoose » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:27 PM UTC

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