Re:From Node to Ruby on Rails
by cure on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:16AM
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Well summarized, grandparent!
> On the Python side I think the movement has started to fix the packaging mess. It's going to take a while me thinks.
I hope you are right, but ... this is the pattern: every year or two someone decides to fix it, goes about 80% of the way to a complete solution (which is maybe 50% of the effort, of course), that becomes 'the thing to use'. But then it is abandoned because that last 20% of functionality is a lot of work, and someone else comes up with a new shiny thing, and the cycle starts again.
> On the Python side I think the movement has started to fix the packaging mess. It's going to take a while me thinks.
I hope you are right, but ... this is the pattern: every year or two someone decides to fix it, goes about 80% of the way to a complete solution (which is maybe 50% of the effort, of course), that becomes 'the thing to use'. But then it is abandoned because that last 20% of functionality is a lot of work, and someone else comes up with a new shiny thing, and the cycle starts again.
Not holding my breath, in other words.