Tools Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• [AskJS] Why there is so much hatred toward using Javascript on the Backend for C#/Java and others tech stack programmer ? Is it performance alone ? Do you consider yourself a full stack senior JS dev ?
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/javascript | 14 Nov 2021

  Again, if js is so fast, why rome (https://rome.tools/) is being rewritten to rust?

• Where would i start making a compiler in rust?
  4 projects | reddit.com/r/rust | 3 Oct 2021

  Read this project to know more Rome

• How to ensure the highest quality of software code
  1 project | reddit.com/r/javascript | 26 Sep 2021

  I've tested out https://rome.tools/ for JS/TS and it looks promising!

• Yarn 3.0.0
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2021

  I haven't actually used Rome, but their installation guide mentions both yarn and npx, so that possibly means Rome is agnostic on them

  https://rome.tools/#installation-and-usage

• Best open source projects showcasing Typescript on github in 2021?
  11 projects | reddit.com/r/typescript | 24 Jun 2021
• I do love .NET
  1 project | reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor | 2 Jun 2021

  I've started studying Java, but worked with JS/Node ever since. I have no quarrel with the language itself, but with it's PURE CHAOTIC ecosystem.Install X for linting, Y for testing, W for mocking, Z for commits, and then everything breaks when you update a single package or use the latest Typescript version (which the tools have yet to adopt...).Just to start a damn project you have to read docs and configure almost a dozen packages (my case, in a big project migrating legacy systems). And we still have a lot of technical debt to solve (related to JS ecosystem).There are things like Rome that aim to centralize everything in a single tool, but they're still far from becoming mainstream.

• Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 May 2021

  So I don't agree with GP poster that there's no reason to use spaces for indentation, but Rome recently switched to using tabs for accessibility reasons:

  https://github.com/rome/tools/issues/425

  (Specifically, people with visual impairment disabilities benefit a lot from being able to customize tab widths.)

• Hammer: A build tool for node and browser applications
  4 projects | reddit.com/r/javascript | 9 May 2021

  Is it similar to https://github.com/rome/tools ? This project just gained 4.9M $ and it's quite interesting how it will advance - https://rome.tools/blog/announcing-rome-tools-inc/

• Announcing Rome Tools Inc, an open source first company
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2021

  This is that facebook project though (not just the same name), see here: https://github.com/rome/tools/blob/main/website/src/blog/pos...

  Seems like the author could take it with him when leaving facebook, which is nice.

• A linter, compiler, bundler, and more for JavaScript, TS, HTML, MD, CSS
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2021
• JSON with Commas and Comments
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2021

  Looks pretty similar to rome json (https://rome.tools/#rome-json)

• Tensorflow: Confusion on how javascript bundling with rollup affects exports/namespaces/etc.
  1 project | reddit.com/r/tensorflow | 21 Jan 2021

  Right, Python's venvs have spoiled you. I know that feeling. The JS ecosystem does move lightning fast, so maybe there'll be a better build tool at some point. There was RomeJS, it sort of aspires to be a unified toolchain made by the same people who worked on Babel (I think? going off memory again) but I don't know how widespread/well-adopted it is.

• What will be the Testing tool for 2021?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/node | 25 Dec 2020

  I guess Rome will gain more traction, it even does more than just testing.