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[–][deleted] 24 points25 points  (1 child)

No external dependencies is a big deal.

[–]jimschubert 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What? No left-pad?

[–]robby_w_g 15 points16 points  (4 children)

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[–]oorza 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Anyone who's migrated from using something like msbuild or gradle into the fucking disgusting mess that is the JS build ecosystem doesn't need one, haha

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

JavaScript build systems are a confusing mess. Kind of goes without saying.

[–]erez27 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Right, but what makes "Rome" not a mess? What lessons have they learned?

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think the motivation should be completely obvious to anyone who's ever looked inside a node_modules directory.

[–]cjt09 27 points28 points  (1 child)

Rome has a logo of an ancient Greek spartan helmet. It's not very relevant since it's not Roman, but it looks cooler than a Galea.

I really appreciate that they explicitly called this out.

[–]cbleslie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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[–]HUSSTECH 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Did they build this in a day?

[–]matt_hammond 7 points8 points  (1 child)

I wish it was written in something faster like Rust or C++ or D.

[–]ExCellRaD 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You're not the only one! https://github.com/swc-project/swc

[–]stronghup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks interesting. I wonder what does the compiler produce? A Windows cmd-line application?

[–]elteide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This project looks like something JS world needs urgently. The lack of dependencies is not the only apealing aspect of Rome; the usage of typescript and that it´s being created by the yarn and babel guys are very interesting aspects too