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.
Actually his perspective is quite reasonable. Go is in the other part of the spectrum than languages encouraging "left-pad"-type of libraries, and this is a good thing.
As my psychology professor used to say. "Smart is how efficiently use your intelligence. Or don't."
So someone pretty low IQ can be smart - Forrest Gump. Or someone high IQ can be dumb occasionally - a professor so very attuned to his research topic at expense of everything else.
In other words: when someone's knowledge is disproportionately localized/siloed to their prospective subfield or domain of expertise, it does not necessitate generalization to others.
I'm certainly not saying this is the case with this particular individual, as I'm personally not familiar with their background. I'm simply stating that it's a plausible explanation for when experts in one domain make naive assertions about another domain they might not have the same experience in.
A guy designing and then implementing a programming language has a much bigger chance to put a lot of rational thinking into the tooling like dependency manager, than a typical language consumer, who can and often is easily falling into the languages emo wars.
How is ginger bill excluded from this group? No one is more invested in a language than its creator(s).
Sure, he might have given it a lot of thought, but he came up with some completely bonkers conclusions. If you don't want dependencies, DON'T IMPORT DEPENDENCIES. Don't make your dependencies extremely hard to add.
Yawn.. saw it before...next, please
I'm glad you saw through me like a Superman through a lead book. Which is to say, not at all. I wasn't even thinking of Go. Where did this come from? I never mentioned Go. I don't use it or know how it does its packaging.
Are you projecting your feelings onto me as a sort of substitute for the HN gestalt? The discussion was about package managers being evil.
Now please return to the topic at hand.
Let's say you have NPM package manager. What prevents you a rational individual from saying:
{
"depedencies": {}
}So my snarky remark was about him, not about you. I think it's ok to rewind the tree up to see what is about whom. I can sincerely apologize that I have put replies to two distinct human beings, you and that other commenter, in one paragraph. Honestly, I can see that could let to confusion.
I think we can stop now..