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Yeah Typescript is maybe not the best example. Go, Rust and Zig get this right though. And Deno, which is based on Typescript.
by IshKebab 1y ago
Yeah Typescript is maybe not the best example. Go, Rust and Zig get this right though. And Deno, which is based on Typescript.
- cyphar 1y agoGo only "got this right" after a decade of kicking and screaming about how it wasn't necessary. Dealing with the vendor and go.mod transitions was incredibly painful. There wasn't even a mechanism for hiding packages from everyone in the world from importing until Go 1.4! I'm still not convinced that the built-in vendor support added in Go 1.5 wasn't intentionally made incompatible with the community-developed solutions out of some weird kind of spite. Why didn't they just use "./vendor/src" like all of the existing tools were using? (Remember that Go was written by plan9 folks, so making a "src" symlink didn't work. In fact, the Go compiler dislikes symlinks in most places -- pre-modules the unholy things you had to do with GOPATH were awful.)