Ask HN: Why is Japan so insular?

The country is very self-contained and seems uninterested mostly in integrating culturally with others, as if it’s unnecessary. Famously they were isolated for hundreds of years by force. Sure they have regional differences within their nation, and sure folks from other cultures live, work, integrate and become part of Japan, sort of…but… homogenous monoculture comes to mind, too. I don’t […]

Ask HN: Why are JavaScript dependencies so messy?

I love JS, but every once in a while a new bundler comes along that “solves everything”. And it works, for a while. then it breaks. Why? Why are there so many edge cases? I don’t understand it. We only have a few module types (AMD, CommonJS, ES modules), with a few types of import and export syntax. How hard […]