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Zig is becoming a strong ecosystem for JS/TS tooling.

Not sure if it started with Bun but there's good momentum.

Maybe zig will become what rust is for python.

But JS needs a better compiled extension story for that to happen. The absence of a standard like wheels makes everything difficult.

I don't think that compiled extensions are a good solution for any particular task. Projects that need some code outside of JS ecosystem can compile it to WASM, project that need a lot of it should be done in that language instead.

The entire AI ecosystem, the scientific stack, the GIS crowd and 3D modeling community disagree with you.

And they went for python, not js, because of this.

You're providing examples of "project that need a lot of it should be done in that language instead". What would these projects even gain from using nodejs on backend and packing most of their business code into extensions for node?

Talk is cheap, they coded it.

I am getting the strongest sense of deja vu here.

I could swear I saw this exact comment on this topic quite recently, but not as recently as the last few hours.

Might be the case, I don't know why but sometimes HN gives a second shot to some posts and the comments that were made a few days ago appears as if written now. This was posted 3 days ago.

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