What Julia Does Right

[bachmeier]

On Sunday, 11 December 2022 at 03:16:24 UTC, max haughton wrote:

> Also saving dependencies in a user folder is tempting and 
> sometimes correct but if you have to build a real product you 
> typically have either subprojects or entirely separate projects 
> with the same dependencies in them — if these are all stored in 
> their own local folder then you end up fetching and building 
> things multiple times (dub suffered from the latter until very 
> recently IIRC). You could have a single per-product build dir 
> but at that point you've lost the locality and might as well 
> just have it in /home/ or wherever.

This language is not helpful. It is used by people with a very 
narrow set of experiences that do not understand other use cases. 
That leads to terrible design decisions. I for one have no 
interest in build what you define to be a "real product".