JavaScript is awesome in many regards. What is not so great is the lack of an ecosystem in terms of a standard base library to interface with the outside world, dependency management and ways to write portable applications that work across many platforms. This shortcoming is costing developers and companies countless hours of wasted time and frustration every... [read more]
CommonJS via PINF - Christoph Dorn
JavaScript is awesome in many regards. What is not so great is the lack of an ecosystem in terms of a standard base library to interface with the outside world, dependency management and ways to write portable applications that work across many platforms. This shortcoming is costing developers and companies countless hours of wasted time and frustration every day. We all have a deep desire for our JS code to just work, and play nice together, but achieving this with a technology as powerful and fragmented as JavaScript is a tall order.
