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Yeah, it is bike shedding to discuss dependency management, because dependency management is an "insignificant or unimportant detail" of a programming language.

• majewsky 8y ago
  You say "/s", but for some reason, many people still hold the sincere position that dependency management is something that can just be tacked on to a language as an afterthought.
  • coldtea 8y ago
    Of course it can. npm, composer, etc all added it to their respective languages as afterthoughts, and many years (or decades even) after the language was out.
    • al2o3cr 8y ago
      Given the whole mjs-vs-js situation with npm, it's more of a counterexample for adding dependency management late.
      • coldtea 8y ago
        That's nothing really. They have to use 2 different suffixes to denote 2 kinds of files vs modules. Meanwhile millions of people use it for 10 or so years for all kinds of deployments. If only all languages had that unimportant problems.
• rurban 8y ago
  It's bike shedding when you have no actual idea about the problems and solution, but decide on something anyway. The implementor in the meantime figured it out by himself and just did it.