alt Hacker NewsThis is why I am not a huge fan of separate package managers for libraries, such as in the case of rust, or node. The C style of sharing deps. couldn't really be simpler as just including the headers in your Makefile.
We really don't need more package managers other than the ones provided by your operating system, but I dunno maybe its just me.
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btbuildem • yesterday at 4:12 PM
The JS ecosystem in particular, it really seems like it was built by people hell-bent on reinventing the wheel and making all the mistakes / paying all the costs along the way. It's a pretty octagonal wheel so far, but maybe they'll get there eventually.
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That ship has sailed, traveled around the world, and docked in a foreign port at this point.
Including headers isn't remotely "simple". There's so many considerations in linking, .SO version compatibility, architecture and instruction set issues, building against multiple versions on the same system. Or if you want to feel frustrated in a single word: GDAL (IYKYK)
And that's only where #include is even applicable. That is not gonna fly for any interpreted language - JS in this case, but also python, ruby, php.