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Sure, in Perl these are called "dual-life" modules. It makes things easy for users, but makes the life of the compiler-maintainer worse. Now not only do they n
by avar 7y ago
Sure, in Perl these are called "dual-life" modules. It makes things easy for users, but makes the life of the compiler-maintainer worse.
Now not only do they need to ship a stable compiler+large-stdlib, but they can't even rely on there being a 1=1 version relationship between the two, instead it'll be many=many as users might use multiple library versions with multiple compiler versions.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Sure, in Perl these are called "dual-life" modules. It makes things easy for users, but makes the life of the compiler-maintainer worse. Well, yeah, but you're not going to have much of a language at all if you optimize for quality of life of the language maintainer.