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Imagine if every library you used named itself with a single character. Does your language have more than 27 libraries available? Then sorry, some of their ch
by csense 11y ago
Imagine if every library you used named itself with a single character. Does your language have more than 27 libraries available? Then sorry, some of their choices of letter will overlap and those libraries will conflict, perhaps requiring you to manually edit the distribution source or build scripts. Do you ever want to create a project that has more than 27 transitive dependencies? Yeah, good luck with that. Found a code snippet online and want to figure out what library it's invoking? Hint: Google is probably going to be useless when searching for a single-letter name.
The problems with using single-character names for libraries are so self-evident, I'm not quite sure how to respond to someone who doesn't see it.