Ian Brown on X: "Easier native extensions outside the JVM means that these sort of iss…"

>npm ERR! Package pixman-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path.

Shit like this is why Java is better than Node, Ruby, Python, et al

It is also why I am a little worried about Panama.

Ian Brown @igb

Easier native extensions outside the JVM means that these sort of issues will be more common in the Java ecosystem, no?

3:05 AM · May 16, 2022 View on Twitter ↗

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The best feature of JNI was how much it sucked so there were very few wrapped native extensions.