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1. I thought "Sapphire is a next‑generation, Rust‑powered package manager inspired by Homebrew" covered it pretty well. 2. It's a personal project. 3. It's ex
by runjake 2y ago
1. I thought "Sapphire is a next‑generation, Rust‑powered package manager inspired by Homebrew" covered it pretty well.
2. It's a personal project.
3. It's explicitly declared as alpha software.
- frollogaston 2y agoYeah, the HN title was editorialized as a Homebrew "replacement," which may be ticking people off.
- azinman2 2y ago“ Sapphire is a next‑generation, Rust‑powered package manager inspired by Homebrew” Doesn’t tell me how it differs. What makes this next generation? Just the programming language? If it’s just a for fun personal project that no one else is supposed to use, I’m not sure why it’s on HN.
- dancek 2y agoThe author didn't submit it to HN, so criticizing it being on HN seems unfair to me. It's a cool piece of alpha-quality software. It may or may not be meant to be used, that's beside the point. As I see it HN isn't a platform for software recommendations, it's for discussing interesting geeky things. Which this definitely is, even if it was completely unusable today.
- pvg 2y agoDoesn’t tell me how it differs Not everything on HN has to come with a dissection and explanatory note - that's kind of the point of curiosity. If it’s just a for fun personal project that no one else is supposed to use, I’m not sure why it’s on HN. Those are totally fine on HN too.
- azinman2 2y agoExcept the title (previously) said homebrew replacement. So when it doesn’t say why/what, and there’s no context, people are going to be confused.
- pvg 2y agoSometimes titles are slightly wrong. It's just not that big of a deal, most of the time. It's a messageboard in large part about the pleasure of finding things out rather than the grump of not everything being exactly as you expect.
- fastball 2y ago#1 is a "what", not a "why"