Article discussing Go, could well be D

Caligo iteronvexor at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 09:29:54 PDT 2011


On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> That's it. We need a package management expert on board to either revive
> dsss or another similar project, or define a new package manager altogether.
> No "yeah I have some code somewhere feel free to copy from it"; we need
> professional execution. Then we need to make that tool part of the standard
> distribution such that library discovery, installation, and management is as
> easy as running a command.
>
> I'm putting this up for grabs. It's an important project of high impact.
> Wondering what you could do to help D? Take this to completion.
>
>
> Andrei
>

Andrei, I have to respectfully disagree with you on that, sorry.

D is supposed to be a system programming language, not some scripting
language like Ruby.  Besides, the idea of some kind of package
management for a programming language is one of the worst ideas ever,
specially when it's a system programming language.  You have no idea
how much pain and suffering it's going to cause the OS developers and
package maintainers.  I can see how the idea might be attractive to
non-*nix users, but most other *nix OSs have some kind of package
management system and searching for, installing, and managing software
is as easy as running a command.


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