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Who then? Distros? One of my favorite software engineering comics is "User Friendly" from 1999: https://distrowatch.com/images/other/userfriendly-comic.png http

• oneshtein 3y ago
  Yep. Package management is the core of a (Linux) software distribution.
  • adhamsalama 3y ago
    Linux package management is already fragmented, the last thing we should do is add programming languages package management to it.
  • ungamedplayer 3y ago
    I thought the current process was just to herpderp it and put everything into a container.
    • bluGill 3y ago
      I hope that fad dies. It assumes all the world is x86-64 Linux. Maybe you get a few who acknowledge the raspberry pi. However there is a whole world of new other processors, *BSD, and others that the fad makes difficult to use.
• bluGill 3y ago
  Nobody that currently exists - at least to my knowledge. This is a hard, mostly thankless problem. Distros solved a similar problem, but they have different motivations and so didn't fully solve everything. Languages like rust have a partial solution, but they don't play well with other languages and the full complexity that can result.