alt Hacker NewsEverytime I see a language creating their own package system, all I can think of it how much we've missed here.
The only exception is C/C++, where there is none established that well, for good or bad.
These choices may create later super-convoluted processes when you have to mix more than one language together.
Packaging systems makes thing easy, but complicate further the line if another language needs to be used.
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small_model • yesterday at 11:31 PM
C should have fixed its various issues and added a package manager (or blessed one), Zig is filling that gap.
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forrestthewoods • yesterday at 9:26 PM
The world has yet to standardize on a good crossplatform polyglot build system.
The only real such build systems are Buck and Bazel. But they have way too much baggage from their overlords.
It’s a shame.
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What do you think we've missed? Do you want one build systems for all languages? There are such systems (e.g. Bazel) and they're often used for multi-languages projects, but I think reality has proven that build systems with language-specific knowledge are much easier to navigate.