alt Hacker NewsIts strange how flip floppy the JS ecosystem is, because go back literally 1-3 years or so and the BIGGEST complaint was the lack of a standard library and having to use a package for everything.
But now that Bun is actually doing it its somehow bad? Its also still open source, so those implementations you mention need dedicated teams can still get the attention they need by the community if needed.
I'm on the side that I'd actually prefer if node included more out of the box and we could drastically cut down on the number of packages we need due to the amount of supply chain attacks that happen on packages in the node ecosystem.
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Is that flip-flopping or just different developers having different preferences? Those who complain now would have had no reason to complain back then, and vice versa
I agree and I also wish Node did more.
Otoh should a standard lib give you absolutely everything? Probably not. There needs to be a line somewhere.
Right now Bun’s policy on this seems to be "whatever Jarred feels like should be in there".
Standard library is up to the TC39 committee, not a VC-funded all-in-one JS runtime owned by Anthropic.
wasn't that complaint mostly about those tiny dependencies like `is-even` or `is-array`?
I feel like nobody complained that you needed to install a dependency to do headless browser testing for example.
I would guess that many devs' preference would be for a larger standard library, but not a kitchen sink.
Personally, I'd be happy with a larger suite of utility functions (say, most of Lodash / es-toolkit - remove the need for left-pad silliness), probably SQLite bindings (having a good persistence layer is great, it's perhaps the most robust and most widely deployed software on the planet), but not YAML (complex, security concerns, parser differences) or image handling (again, security concerns).
Node.js is, IMO, actually pretty good these days; they're regularly adding useful built-in tools that remove the need for add-on packages. (The ecosystem is so big that getting those updates to filter out is hard.)