Mindset of the D team vs the Rust team

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Mar 24 12:17:00 PDT 2016


On 03/24/2016 02:29 PM, bachmeier wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 16:50:05 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> Not understanding the importance of package managers is another (DUB
>> still not part of official distro?) Compare with Rust's Cargo.
>
> Cargo is a good example of the problem with D. Not because of features
> (I don't know enough about either to compare) but because Cargo is
> documented like this:
>
> http://doc.crates.io/
>
> and Dub is documented like this:
>
> http://code.dlang.org/getting_started
>
> Dub is going to be the official package manager, everybody says we
> should use Dub, but there's no way I could tell someone I'm working with
> to use it. I won't touch it for that reason. It's not clear to me how
> others don't see this is a problem.

Could you please itemize the issues you found with dub? (FWIW I also 
sent a list to Sönke a while ago). -- Andrei



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