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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Module system","articleBody":"I prefer **Go's package system** where all source files in the same directory belong to the same Go package if it's written so (e.g. `package main` as their file headers), because:\r\n\r\n* It's highly flexible to extend the functionalities **without modifying any files**, because you could add new definitions in those new files, and they would be exported for free. But in Rust (and similarly in Python), you need to add `mod xxx` in the `mod.rs` file which might make you indecisive about the line you need to place the statement lol.\r\n\r\nIn a RowScript codebase, JavaScript files (e.g. `*.js`) inside a directory (i.e. module) would be copied and imported into the generated JS module, that's paired with the magic of postulates (#40).\r\n\r\nHowever, by adopting Go's package system, the terminologies should be changed according to JavaScript's conventions:\r\n\r\n|Concept|In Go|In RowScript|\r\n|:--:|:--:|:--:|\r\n|A directory|Package|Module (due to ES6 modules)|\r\n|A codebase, repository|Module|Package (due to npm packages)|","author":{"url":"https://github.com/anqur","@type":"Person","name":"anqur"},"datePublished":"2023-04-13T03:02:35Z","url":"https://github.com/rowscript/rowscript/issues/37"}