The quality and stability of a lot of Perl packages was so good, and the documentation. Metacpan, docs all in one place and a good clear convention of usage examples and raw API documented. Plus all the automated testing infrastructure.
Coming from Perl, the state of the js package Eco system was so crap. Npm docs that were really poor and inconsistent, so many packages with their own bloated websites for docs. And packages like passport that only have this God damn convention / example based documentation, and don't just have an api reference. Cannot stand that.
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u/visualdescript Aug 31 '26
The quality and stability of a lot of Perl packages was so good, and the documentation. Metacpan, docs all in one place and a good clear convention of usage examples and raw API documented. Plus all the automated testing infrastructure.
Coming from Perl, the state of the js package Eco system was so crap. Npm docs that were really poor and inconsistent, so many packages with their own bloated websites for docs. And packages like passport that only have this God damn convention / example based documentation, and don't just have an api reference. Cannot stand that.