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#4) The dream of reusable components is here. Every major dev system from Emacs through Rust has a vast library of component dependencies. These things are a sw
by imglorp 5y ago
#4) The dream of reusable components is here. Every major dev system from Emacs through Rust has a vast library of component dependencies. These things are a swirling unstable mass, leading to spacetime fluctuations up at the human level such as supply chain attacks, mandatory upgrade cycles, and orphaned deps. Then the complexity leads to wrapping standard deps to standardize them, leading to multiple standards...
You know it's bad if there's multiple XKCD's about it.
https://xkcd.com/2347 https://xkcd.com/2347
https://xkcd.com/1987 https://xkcd.com/1987
https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- paganel 5y agoAs a Python developer who just bought the wrong USB to USB-something (whatever IPhone SE uses) cable just last week the second and third links you provided hit very close to home. I don't know anyone from Nebraska just yet, though.