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A critique of package managers

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109 points gingerBill | 1 comments | 08 Sep 25 12:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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smw ◴[08 Sep 25 13:16 UTC] No.45167873[source]▶
"When using Go for example, you don’t need any third-party libraries to make a web server, Go has it all there and you are done."

Fine, now what if you need to connect to a database, or parse a PDF, or talk to a grpc backend. What a hilariously short-sighted example.

To me, this whole article just screams inexperience.

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1. rob74 ◴[08 Sep 25 13:34 UTC] No.45168076[source]▶
Sure... and, to prove your point, Go has a package manager too (although it's a relatively new addition). But Go still follows a "batteries included" approach, where "standard" stuff (yes, even database handling) is handled by the standard library. Which still leaves lots of other things for which you need third party packages, but those will be typically far fewer than in other languages.