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@sebmck in Rome, have you abstracted away the 'host environment' in any way to make the toolchain available in contexts like the browser? Certainly would be amazing to have a tight, UX friendly ecosystem like that in the browser.
In fact, I was (sort of still am), considering bundling the Rome CLI with my own version of Node/whatever. Would make it easy to use Rome outside of the Node-ecosystem. Would also allow easy distribution. Similar mode to Yarn, available everywhere: homebrew, apr-get, rubygems etc
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I don’t think that’s a good idea if you want usage from Node.js module authors. We have to run our tests across a range of Node.js versions (2-4 at any given time). Tests frameworks should run across all LTS runtimes without problems.
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Of course! If Rome were distributed on npm then it wouldn’t bundle anything. For external distribution it makes more sense. It has a lot of implications, which is why I’ve yet to form a strong opinion. If Rome supports running in a different host which is faster, then makes...
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Interesting! If you don't mind me asking here, will Rome also be pluggable with custom AST transforms? Or is the plan to lock it down to support only stable syntax?
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Not sure how to handle plugins. It’s definitely possible and I’m designing everything to allow it. Hard part is figuring out how to expose it without widening the API surface area. Likely wouldn’t be available for any initial open source release (if there is one).
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Also when I say “my own version of Node”, I just mean using an official build.
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