> If you really think I'm wrong, do a writeup and share it on HN with everyone. You can go to the awesome-cl repo to find the most popular libraries in the ecos

> If you really think I'm wrong, do a writeup and share it on HN with everyone. You can go to the awesome-cl repo to find the most popular libraries in the ecosystem, and show how easy it is to avoid using Quicklisp to install/build/find the deps/run tests for all those repos. It would really help and I think it would save a lot of people time. For something like the Nodejs ecosystem, for example, such a writeup would probably only take like an hour tops because of the maturity of the npm package manager. I picked dexador because Fukamachi likes lots of small projects, so it's going to have lots of deps; it took me about 50 minutes while watching baseball and chatting with family: https://gist.github.com/jasom/474ba02bf3d4e0c02d8fc10feacd3b68 https://gist.github.com/jasom/474ba02bf3d4e0c02d8fc10feacd3b... I should also note that, should you want to avoid reading the .asd file, you can skip steps 2-4 and just download dependencies as-needed. This is literally what my workflow was for using 3rd party Lisp projects the day before QL came out. Prior to my discovery of Google it was even more of a pain. I've never successfully gotten a Nodejs project working without NPM, but NPM vies with pypi for my second least favorite packaging ecosystem (haskell cabal "wins" this contest).