Izzy Jun 24
something I think nodejs software developers don't undestand is that using and running node-based software as an admin is miserable; it's basically impossible to package for a distro sanely, the actual software ends up taking up huge amounts of disk space, the dependency kudzu situation makes it really difficult to trust anything...
basically unless it's the only option I will avoid it. at least go software tends to result in easily usable binaries.
Show threadAutumn (Going on a Fopbreak)
@izzy as someone who does everything in node/js, highly agreed

i just run my code as a dev server lmao, i have zero idea how you'd package it outside of Docker, which sucks
Jun 25 at 11:14amWeb
Show threadIzzy Jun 25
@null I feel like you'd basically need to write a nix ... extension? if you wanted to package it without just slapping it in a container, to auto-generate the nix package definitions of all the dependencies recursively.. because instead you'd be packaging it inside a web of symlinks. :skull: