It is entirely too after 5pm to deal with someone else's javascript

javascript is a perfectly fine language that you should only touch if someone is paying you

I'm looking at this package manager and the install page lists 19 different ways to install it

the javascript ecosystem is just XKCD 927 on a loop for 29 years

@foone ... literally? damn

@yujiri 19!

https://pnpm.io/installation

@foone i feel like that only counts as 7: install script, corepack, brew, winget, scoop, choco, volta

@yujiri they've still got little caveats and minor differences, so it's not just "download the script" and six more packaging systems.

I finally gave in and just followed the install guide on their discord that required me to install a bunch of software on my laptop that is running out of space.

it compiled for 10 minutes and then immediately threw an error when I went to localhost:8080

computers were a mistake. javascript doubley so

whoops threading error:

https://digipres.club/@foone/113643480130099224

see this is why I have problems with companies that have social media policies.

Cause you see that I'm still doing the JS anyway, right?

I actually do use javascript and program in it quite a lot!

I just hate every minute of it, so I have to kvetch. the kvetching is vital to my ability to code in java fucking script.

if you tell a foone "do this javascript thing and don't complain about it online" then you'll have a foone staring at a command line prompt for 8 hours without getting anything done

otherwise all that negativity would build up inside me and I might explode. It's like trying to run a fireplace with the chimney blocked, the carbon monoxide will kill you

you have to complain about javascript or alan turing died for nothing

@foone as a js developer of ~15 years...

..

...yeah

@xyhhx yeah. Keep in mind as I say this, I am a javascript developer.

this isn't like python and perl making fun of each other, I know how annoying JS can be BECAUSE I AM DOING JS

@foone He still died for nothing, and what they did is a travesty. Oh, and what happened to Turing is a travesty too.)

edit:
I had a hanging parentheses in there, good thing it wasn't a fucking semicolon.

@NosirrahSec I mean that too, yeah.

Alan Turing was gay, and Javascript was invented by a homophobe.
Funny little world, eh?

@foone brb going to use the law of equivalent exchange to save turing by sacrificing brendan eich

@left_adjoint as a pope, I'm gonna give you a preemptive absolution for your heresy, so don't worry about that.

anyway the code (at least the part I care about, the main bit is unfixably buggered as far as I can tell) finally ran, now I just need to write some of my own typescript.

I'm sure that'll be fun

@lukeshu @evan I know, right? Someone should hire me to do the dual jobs of development and developer PR, Microblogging Division

@foone If God is all powerful, why do they allow JavaScript to exist?

@aud look, I'm a pope, and that kind of theodicy is above my pay grade.

@foone @glyph a secret third thing: all types are strings

@jyn @glyph that's the next step down the spectrum, yeah.

@jyn @glyph
maybe it goes:
* everything is a string
* numbers are doubles
* now that you're a big kid, we can trust you with an int
* you get to decide how big those ints are! but in a really annoying unportable way.
* you can do pointer math into your numbers and rewrite them in pieces.

@foone @jyn @glyph

you get to decide how big those ints are! but in a really annoying unportable way.
Is this…is this about C?

@tertle950 @glyph @jyn
yeah! I've done 16bit x86, 32bit x86, and 64bit x86 THIS FUCKING WEEK! what's an int? I HAVE NO IDEA

@foone daily reminder that if you're not gay on the computer them you're doing computers wrong

@me exactly!

@foone ever read Turing and Burroughs?

@MedeaVanamonde no but upon googling the description I clearly should

@foone one of Rudy’s best .

@MedeaVanamonde I was a huge fan of The Hacker and the Ants back in the day, but I haven't kept up with him since, which is certainly a mistake, I'm sure

@foone Alan Turing was gay, and if your website and/or services aren't usable without JS, you're a homophobe

that's funny, not gonna lie

@getimiskon crap I'm a homophobe apparently

@foone i didn't write it as something serious, but in my opinion, it's better for websites to have some basic functionality when people browse with more basic web browsers.

calling someone a homophobe is bad (unless they're actually a homophobe, of course)

@getimiskon oh I know. was just a joke: deathegenerator.com is less a "website" and more a "web app" so it really needs JS.

@foone i see