food for thought - swift 5 released - bottom types, string interpolation, and stuff.

[aliak]

On Saturday, 13 April 2019 at 07:58:27 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 April 2019 at 07:04:23 UTC, Julian wrote:
>> On Saturday, 13 April 2019 at 04:40:08 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> On 4/12/2019 9:15 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
>>>> If for you, they're the same level of abstraction, that's 
>>>> great. For most, it isn't.
>>>
>>> If you want to write a library of such, and contribute it to 
>>> Dub, feel free. If you find an audience for it, great.
>>
>> Done: https://code.dlang.org/packages/isodd
>>
>> It doesn't seem like there's a way to run library unit tests
>> with dub?
>>
>> I'll add non-manpage documentation later.
>>
>> And a logo, of course.
>
> You can have different dub configurations, 1 of type library 
> and 1 of type executable for the unit tests. The first 
> configuration in the array list is the default configuration.
>
> I have a very bad feeling about such small dub packages, 
> because we are now on the same quality level like NodeJS ):
>
> Kind regards
> Andre

Amen.

I guess most people have seen this but: 
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/

TL;DR - library with 11 lines of js code, pulled from npm, broke 
thousands of projects.