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A critique of package managers

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smw ◴[] 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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1GZ0 ◴[] No.45167975[source]
The Author isn't arguing for not using third party dependencies. He's arguing for developers to be more conscious of the dependencies they use, by manually vetting and handling them. That screams "I've been down the package manager route and paid the price". Not inexperience.
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pipes ◴[] No.45168004[source]
But titled the post "package managers are evil"
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Defletter ◴[] No.45168062[source]
> The term “evil” is being used partially hyperbolic to make a point.

Kind of bonkers this even needs to be said, and even then it's missed/ignored.

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1. procaryote ◴[] No.45173776[source]
I guess clickbait is evil