Re:Python Is Eating the World
by takeda on Monday August 12, 2019 @07:28PM
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Also with C and C++ your dependencies compile with your code into a single binary, unless you explicitly opt into using a library, and when you do it becomes a package manager's issue not yours.
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That's vastly oversimplifying the problem. "DLL hell" is a term for a reason. The vast amount of effort and complexity Microsoft has put into managing this problem is proof that dependency management for C and C++ is not a solved problem.
It is not a solved problem, but it is a problem that C and C++ developers don't care about, because it is a problem of packagers.
This is why it doesn't seem so bad if you're programming in those languages.
Re:Python Is Eating the World
by jcranberry on Friday August 23, 2019 @04:52PM
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We definitely care about it. And I don't know why you think C++ developers can just push issues onto packagers when 50% don't use any kind of package management system. Meaning compiling libraries from source.