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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: 0s | 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. torginus ◴[08 Sep 25 13:41 UTC] No.45168151[source]▶
I think the argument presented, is that whatever a Go package does, it does well.

Btw the Js ecosystem also has quite a few good packages (and a ton of terrible ones, including some which everyone seems to consider as the gold standard).