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I don't think there will ever be a package manager dictated by the Ecmascript standards.
by rezonant 2y ago
I don't think there will ever be a package manager dictated by the Ecmascript standards.
- syndicatedjelly 2y agoThen ES will continue to remain an outlier among major language implementations
- sorrythanks 2y agowhat package manager is dictated by the C, C++, Common Lisp, Ruby, Prolog, Pascal... any language's standard? I am struggling to think of a single standardized language whose standard defines the package manager
- kazinator 2y agoLanguages should make it easy to use third party pieces directly, without a package manager. People actually do that, and so that status quo is maintained; any increment in the difficulty of constructing programs out of components will result in loud protests. Package managers are an anti-pattern. When the standard package manager is present, the packaging problem is regarded as solved ("just use the package manager"), and so the actual mechanisms underlying program construction are then out of the negative feedback loop and will rot.
- rezonant 2y agoSomewhat confused by this statement, I'm having trouble thinking of a language where it's hard to consume code without a package manager...
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- syndicatedjelly 2y agoImagine a world where your language’s package manager became a company that basically offered “Package Management as a Service”. How effective do you imagine that would be?