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> where we might prefer more explicit and local ones. could you expand on this? who is "we" and what are those explicit and local relationships? are you talkin
by ithkuil 9y ago
> where we might prefer more explicit and local ones.
could you expand on this? who is "we" and what are those explicit and local relationships? are you talking about an opensource ecosystem or a private enterprise?
- JeremyBanks 9y agoIn this case I mean open-source communities and the companies that heavily rely on them.
- ithkuil 9y agoI'm not sure I understand your point. It seems you're implying (please correct me if I'm wrong) that ecosystems of modern open-source languages are more local, more tightly coupled and having people working in concert towards a common goal. In my experience this is often what happens when a new community is spawned. E.g. when nodejs started it was there was always one single implementation of that thing I needed and it was reasonably up to date with the rest of the things around it (including the runtime environment, of which there was only one or perhaps two mayor versions of). As time went on more people started to contributing, often with different levels of commitment. Often "modern" gets conflated with "young". Almost by definition, young communities don't develop the same kind of problems of mature communities, yet.