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You design a language for a purpose (which could be anything) you develop and mature it's features to better fit it's use case.

html, a crappy defective xml implementation refuses to grow up, js, while great for little html tweaks is not adopting any of the useful features found in popular npm packages. It was actively developed for 2 weeks. Ripping off it's head (nodejs) gave us a poor sailor jargon ~ but without the boats!

Therefore there is nothing wrong with npm, she is a fine ship. The harbor doesn't want to take it's much desired cargo, it must sail the 7 seas forever mon capitaine!

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StressedDev2y ago

HTML came before XML. Also, how is HTML crappy when it is used by millions of web sites and is one of the most successful technologies in the past 35 years?

Does this mean it is perfect? No. Is it "crappy"? Nope.

Also, while JavaScript had a rushed development cycle, it has grown over the past 20-30 years and you can clearly write some great programs in it. Also, it has some very good features. My favorite is you can pass functions as variable arguments. It got this before a lot of other mainstream languages.

KomoD2y ago

> Also, how is HTML crappy when it is used by millions of web sites and is one of the most successful technologies in the past 35 years?

That does not mean it's good.

Lead paint was widely used in the Europe and Americas for a very long time, doesn't mean it was good

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