D has become unbearable and it needs to stop
Hipreme
msnmancini at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 13 20:22:41 UTC 2023
On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 at 16:57:15 UTC, GrimMaple wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 at 15:34:28 UTC, Martyn wrote:
>> Ok, now I need to use some libraries. DUB is great for this!
>> However, when I search for packages, how do I know which
>> version they support?
>
>
> This is a chicken and egg problem, really. Is there no packages
> because nobody writes them because "dependencies bad", or are
> "dependencies bad" because every existing one just breaks?
>
>> Now, imagine the difficulties of an application with 3 or 4
>> DUB packages. Each library being released/updated at different
>> times and lord knows what version they were last tested on.
>> Will they all work with 2.104.0?
>
Although I have done my own standard library myself. I have
plenty of other reasons to do so. One of them was for the number
of platforms I needed to support (including my own Druntime). I
can't see any other reason why would anyone other would need
their own.
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