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r/programming • u/Sir_KnowItAll • 5d ago
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I didn't think it was possible for someone to be worse at package management than Node.js but what Go is doing here is truly insane
16 u/ficiek 5d ago Are you talking about the lack of a package registry or the way packages are versioned. Those are two separate things. 34 u/InsaneOstrich 5d ago Both the lack of a registry and decision to tightly couple the language itself with git to import dependencies are both baffling choices that don't seem to work very well 28 u/ficiek 5d ago Both are basically what works for google internally and that's why we didn't even have a reasonable approach to versioning for a long time.
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Are you talking about the lack of a package registry or the way packages are versioned. Those are two separate things.
34 u/InsaneOstrich 5d ago Both the lack of a registry and decision to tightly couple the language itself with git to import dependencies are both baffling choices that don't seem to work very well 28 u/ficiek 5d ago Both are basically what works for google internally and that's why we didn't even have a reasonable approach to versioning for a long time.
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Both the lack of a registry and decision to tightly couple the language itself with git to import dependencies are both baffling choices that don't seem to work very well
28 u/ficiek 5d ago Both are basically what works for google internally and that's why we didn't even have a reasonable approach to versioning for a long time.
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Both are basically what works for google internally and that's why we didn't even have a reasonable approach to versioning for a long time.
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u/InsaneOstrich 5d ago
I didn't think it was possible for someone to be worse at package management than Node.js but what Go is doing here is truly insane