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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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kunley ◴[08 Sep 25 13:24 UTC] No.45167966[source]▶
Inexperience of an author who develops quite successful programming language for like 10 years? Quite a bold statement.

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.

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tialaramex ◴[08 Sep 25 13:59 UTC] No.45168357[source]▶
Is it "quite successful"? How would I distinguish such a "quite successful" language from say Hare or V or are these all "successful" in your mind?
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kunley ◴[08 Sep 25 16:05 UTC] No.45169989[source]▶
Why the need for distinguishing and an urge for comparison? We're talking about Odin, that's it. As a project that (as I understand) didn't have any big corp investment, it's impressive.
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1. tialaramex ◴[08 Sep 25 16:56 UTC] No.45170690[source]▶
The claim was that we should assume Odin's author is experienced because he wrote a successful language. If we've decided it doesn't matter whether it's successful then the claim was entirely circular. Yes, the creator of Odin is indeed its creator. Nobody was disputing that.