On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Mattias Andrée <maand...@kth.se> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:10:50 -0800 > Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Adrian Grigore >> The small part may sound like suckless, but I find it to > > It should be noted that suckless is not about small > software packages (with no reduction in the total > size of all package), it is about simple (and clear > and frugal) software. There is nothing in the philosophy > saying that libraries should be split into pieces.
That was the point I was trying to make. nodejs/npm crowd confuse small with simple, clear, and frugal. Everywhere you see "only 1.2kb when gzipped!" which is a false measure of complexity, performance, and design. > Really, their community made something called > "Modern JavaScript"? How vain and arrogant. Yeah...everything after the rise to popularity of nodejs, I call "modern JS". As someone who started embedding SpiderMonkey JS 18 years ago, and continues today with V8, I intentionally call it "modern JS" (lowercase m). People are really making some dumb ass language & ecosystem decisions these days, getting bit by the "agile/devops/continuous delivery" bug, and adding features to JS every other year, including many features that seem to add little or no performance/developer productivity. ...But I digress...
