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Wait, not only is it called asdf leading to confusion, it literally is also a package manager of sorts just like the original asdf??? I just tried googling it
by noobermin 2y ago
Wait, not only is it called asdf leading to confusion, it literally is also a package manager of sorts just like the original asdf???
I just tried googling it having not really used CL in a while, and apparently it was seo'd to the top of google results too?
- phinnaeus 2y agoWhat's the "original asdf?"
- ReleaseCandidat 2y agohttps://asdf.common-lisp.dev/ https://asdf.common-lisp.dev/
- guenthert 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_System_Definition_Facility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_System_Definition_Faci... (it's bit like Python stealing the name of a CL compiler ...)
- 000ooo000 2y agoOne of my pet peeves with tooling these days is the completely random naming. Literally no effort made, whatsoever, to come up with something vaguely descriptive. Neovim plugins are the worst for this. They're comically badly named.
- out-of-ideas 2y agoagreed, but i know firsthand words are hard, and names are more specific words and can be very hard (especially for developers) - esp with shorter names ,and will have a higher chance of a name collision
- brabel 2y agoI raised this complaint before and learned that most people using the "new" one have never even heard of Common Lisp, and certainly not of its own "asdf" system.
- lispm 2y agoAnd the possibility of using "Google" to check for name collisions seems not to be known...
- juunpp 2y agoThe possibility of existence of a "programmer" that is completely oblivious to Common Lisp is the really interesting phenomenon to ponder here. But hey, at least the article links back to Hacker News, Mastodon and Reddit so that we can all revel in ignorance. Surprised there is no Discord.
- bandrami 2y agoCame here to ask that. I've used the CL ASDF for decades now and have been confused more than once to run across docs for this one instead.