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This is pretty funny for us Perl folks. People have been making this complaint about CPAN for many, many years. It's a valid complaint, but all of the alternat
by autarch 15y ago
This is pretty funny for us Perl folks. People have been making this complaint about CPAN for many, many years.
It's a valid complaint, but all of the alternatives seem to be much worse.
I think the idea of using various metrics to pick the best options is a good one, and something we've been pursuing in Perl-land for many years (kwalitee, CPAN Ra(n)tings, metacpan.org, cpantesters, and more).
- mcantelon 15y agoEvolution > central planning doesn't. CPAN was a great stride in open source culture.
- gizzlon 15y agoAnd it's still improved upon.. metacpan.org, f.ex, is a nice improvement.
- peteretep 15y agoOh God Yes. When I first started to use JS, I loved it. Having recently done some hardcore development in it, I realized everything I loved about it was the freedom it gave you ... which is what I loved about Perl. Then the reality of: weird type coercians; the cesspit that is npm; weird OO (rich from a Perl programmer, I know); no Moose (although I hear Joose is coming along); no DBIx::Class; wtf is up with the scoping; etc etc etc... became too much. I use JS now if I need to write a client-side app. For any other purpose ... why bother?