my first impression of dependency management was the abomination that is nuget. I’ll never forget how bad it can be. every language that has a first class dependency manager like cargo is a win.
After years of fighting pip and conda, I got a job where “we work with Python but also still have some .NET Framework apps”.
NuGet seemed just as bad.
People shit on JavaScript (for very good reasons) but npm is amazing compared to all these. You can have one dependency needing PackageX v1 and another dependency needing PackageX v3 and your project will just work!
A modern statically-linked language with a first-class package manager, like Rust or Go is ideal. No fighting the dependency manager, no issue with deploying on different systems, just “run this binary”.
…and then you learn that packageX v1 is not maintained anymore and relies through a deep set of dependencies on a seriously vulnerable package (in a version which is also not maintained anymore).
my first impression of dependency management was the abomination that is nuget. I’ll never forget how bad it can be. every language that has a first class dependency manager like cargo is a win.
After years of fighting
pipandconda, I got a job where “we work with Python but also still have some .NET Framework apps”.NuGet seemed just as bad.
People shit on JavaScript (for very good reasons) but npm is amazing compared to all these. You can have one dependency needing PackageX v1 and another dependency needing PackageX v3 and your project will just work!
A modern statically-linked language with a first-class package manager, like Rust or Go is ideal. No fighting the dependency manager, no issue with deploying on different systems, just “run this binary”.
…and then you learn that packageX v1 is not maintained anymore and relies through a deep set of dependencies on a seriously vulnerable package (in a version which is also not maintained anymore).
Sorry, I had a pretty eventful December :)
I personally didn’t dislike NuGet that much, but that’s coming from someone who has been working with CMake for the last couple of months 😄