More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

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On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:18:08 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 18:02:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>>
>> It never occurred to you that people's libraries would be 
>> published as part of a centralised repository with a tool that 
>> manages dependencies?
>
> Hate to be the cynic, but how in the world do you expect people 
> to even know about Dub or code.dlang.org in the first place?  I 
> don't see it linked from any of the "obvious" places on 
> dlang.org, and I can't even find a single _mention_ that we 
> apparently have a package manager.  Nothing in the FAQ about 
> "Contributing to D".  And as if all that wasn't enough, the 
> "Links" page still points to digitalmars.com.
>
> From a normal user's standpoint, they simply don't exist.
>
>> It's pretty common-place in a variety of languages. 
>> (https://rubygems.org/ https://pypi.python.org/pypi 
>> http://www.cpan.org/ etc...).
>>
> It's rather disingenuous to invoke these three.
>
> Ruby: "Libraries" at the top on the home page links to 
> https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/libraries/, which explains gem and 
> links to rubygems
> Python: Not super easy to see, but "PyPI" _is_ linked in the 
> top bar.
> Perl: "CPAN" in the top bar links to 
> http://www.perl.org/cpan.html, which explains cpan ...and I 
> think you can see where this is going.
>
> I love my package manager, but I'm going to have to agree with 
> Manu's bewilderment here.
>
> -Wyatt

I believe this is the case. If I did not stay vaguely informed of 
the latest trends with the various popular dynamic languages, 
i.e., Python, Ruby, NodeJS, basically anything popular with the 
Silicon Valley hipsters (no offense to users of those languages), 
I'd have no idea what a language-based package manager is, much 
less why you'd want to use one when the various *nix have it 
built in. If you work in the game industry, then your primary 
language is probably C++ with a bit of Lua on the side. Do those 
languages even *have* package managers? Even if you understand 
how that all works, Dub isn't advertised at all, as you said.