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Interesting, I've been moving away from Perl and Python and towards Rust precisely because I'm afraid of bitrot. Perl the language is stable as fuck and takes b
by latk 6y ago
Interesting, I've been moving away from Perl and Python and towards Rust precisely because I'm afraid of bitrot. Perl the language is stable as fuck and takes back-compat extremely seriously. The problem for me was the library ecosystem: Cpan makes it tedious to pin/vendor dependencies, and installs dependencies globally by default.
- daotoad 6y agoYou might want to look at Carton and cpanfiles as a way of managing dependencies. You can also get really ancient stuff off BackPAN, should your dependencies disappear from CPAN proper. https://metacpan.org/pod/Carton#Tracking-the-dependencies https://metacpan.org/pod/Carton#Tracking-the-dependencies http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/ http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/
- latk 6y agoYup, Perl7 + Carton looks like a good combo for stable programs that don't have to be distributed publicly. I just wish cpanm and Carton were Core :D
- jwr 6y agoYes, dependencies are a bit of a problem (I tried to use as few as possible in ccheck), but I'd say that the general culture of CPAN is to keep things long-term and prevent breakage, so my experience has been fairly good over the last 25 years. Something I can't say for node.js.