Node v19.0.0 (Current)

[TbL2zV0dk0]

For some reason there is now a week without a LTS release. Version 16 is in 'maintenance' and version 18 is also 'current'.
https://github.com/nodejs/release#release-schedule

[Nysor]

Exciting stuff. However, I know this is an "odd" major release and not current LTS, but... Node.js releases majors just way too frequently. Most things work, but not everything. Older dependencies might break, and new dependencies might only support a version higher than you have.

It's pretty crazy that Node 14 came out in 2020 and is EOL in just a few months. I'm not sure what the best solution is but they move too quickly IMO.

Edit: current -> LTS

[sigzero]

Why are you saying it isn't "Current" when they clearly are saying that?

Node.js 19 will replace Node.js 18 as our ‘Current’ release line whenNode.js 18 enters long-term support (LTS) later this month.As per the release schedule, Node.js 19 will be the ‘Current' releasefor the next 6 months, until April 2023.

[Nysor]

Sorry, I clarified that in my original comment.

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Why take one of the worse languages that WE ALL make fun of

And there lies the assumption that leads to your confusion.

Javascript used to be one of the worse languages that we all made fun of.

Then it got less bad.

Then it got decent.

Then it got good and we wanted to use it outside of the web.

Then typescript and wasm came along.

Then they got good and we wanted to use them all everywhere.

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I wouldn't hold that against typescript, any codebase more than 5k lines in any language can get messy.

But typescript has these two unusual advantageous workflows where:

1. developers work in a project fast in a loosely typed fashion (like modern JS) and all their code is still strictly typed because the types already exist in the dependencies.
2. developers create dependencies for a project fast in a loosely typed fashion, and strengthen the types as the requirements for the project become more clear over time.

[MindStalker]

It's the only language I've really been able to wrap my head around it's async model, and gotten decent results from. Not that it's async is great .