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So many things wrong with this list of memes but my current annoyance is this; "A package management ecosystem is essential for programming languages now. " P

by 32gbsd 7y ago

So many things wrong with this list of memes but my current annoyance is this; "A package management ecosystem is essential for programming languages now. " Package managers are an anti-pattern brought on by the abuse of OOP systems as tool for api dependence; https://owensoft.net/v4/item/2577/ https://owensoft.net/v4/item/2577/

eesmith 7y ago
Your link says more specifically "Composer is an anti-pattern". I don't see where it applies to all package managers. Bear in mind that TeX, a non-OO language, has had CTAN for almost 30 years, which lead to CPAN (since before perl had OO support), CRAN (R), and CEAN (Erlang, also a non-OO language).
- 32gbsd 7y ago
  Definately not all package managers or package management on a whole but how they are used in modern programming to create "churn as default" situation.
  - eesmith 7y ago
    That appears to be rather different than your original comment.
    - 32gbsd 7y ago
      Noted. The contrast between old and new plus the reference to composer should have pointed in the right direction. But alas.