The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis

Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl... by systematical on Thursday August 20, 2020 @07:51PM (#24230368)

Funny I upgraded to ubuntu 20 from 18 last night. Ruby sass wouldn't work anymore. Why? Well just read what the maintainer said...

"When Natalie and Hampton first created Sass in 2006, Ruby was the language at the cutting edge of web development, the basis of their already-successful Haml templating language, and the language they used most in their day-to-day work."

The page continues...

"Since then, Node.js has become ubiquitous for frontend tooling while Ruby has faded into the background."

https://sass-lang.com/ruby-sass

So I installed the nodejs version. And in a few years I'll move over to the next fad....

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Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl... by throwaway189262 on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:02AM (#24232429)

Ruby, Python, and to some extent Node have always had problematic dependencies on system libraries.

I can't count the number of apps in these languages where I've had to fiddle with downloading updating, compiling libraries.

Java and C# are great about this. Download it, run some command, and you're good to go 99% of the time.

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Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl... by edgyquant on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:03PM (#24231212)

14 years is a long run

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Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl... by systematical on Friday August 21, 2020 @08:25AM (#24234279)

Fair point.

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Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl... by batsigner on Friday August 21, 2020 @12:44AM (#24232053)

consider not using ubuntu

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Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl... by JanisL on Friday August 21, 2020 @01:53AM (#24232380)

What would you suggest as a replacement?

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Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl... by batsigner on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:49PM (#24237737)

arch linux, artix linux

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Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl... by systematical on Friday August 21, 2020 @04:48PM (#24238729)

and why more importantly

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Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl... by systematical on Friday August 21, 2020 @08:25AM (#24234277)

umm...why? Its worked well for me, over 10 years now.

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