Seems like every larger open source project will have its moment of small-core vs big-core discussions.
Should the core only contain the bare minimum of essential parts and leave the rest to the ecosystem or should the core be plug and play?
One solution I prefer as a solution to both is by creating distributions that bundle the small core with a default set of modules from the ecosystem. Then one can decide to start of with a distribution or with the small core itself.
@voxpelli yeah, I quite like how #symfony is doing that. They have a pretty minimal default installation and a "webapp" bundle that adds basically all the bells and whistles (sometimes a bit too many, but it's not hard to remove the unneeded stuff)
@dominik Yeah, Drupal somewhat did that back in the days when I was using it as well
Meanwhile, all JS-runtimes are now having and arms race on who can add the most features to core – and I’m missing the small lean Nodejs of old – now it’s trying to out-feature both Deno and Bun
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