Node 20 allows you to compile your app into a single executable along with the entire Node.js core so you can run your apps on systems where node isn't installed, or your don't trust the system version.
Turns out, if you teach an entire generation of programmers to “never reinvent wheels”, you get an entire generation of programmers who are unable to invent new & better wheels, or who are incapable of maintaining the wheels that already exist
Oh no, I opened *12 whole applications*!
When are we going to talk about the hundreds of processes that I *didn’t* open, that are running anyways?
Or what about the enormous waste taken by each program, or each tab in a browser?
If you are a software engineer who’s three years into your career: quit now. there is not a single job in CS anymore. it's over. this field won't exist in 1.5 years.
“What’s this?”
“Your program, sir.”
“No that can’t be right, I haven’t run the installer and updater, or signed into my account.”
“You just put the executable wherever you want and run it whenever you like.”