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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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kunley ◴[] 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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1. user____name ◴[] No.45180682[source]
Not to mention we've have had decades of software development without automated package managers and people did just fine.