Ask HN: Language Support of Modularity
I'd like to know which languages support high modularity. Essentially which languages could you have separate teams work on plugins/libraries that could be used and those users would be forced to only use the public interfaces of the library.
Programmers would be hard pressed to access private functions/classes/data inside the library, and wouldn't be able to compile a bespoke version of the code for themselves. Thus giving you some of the benefit of microservices.
Does go and rust have tooling to allow for the distribution of compiled libraries? Or do you have to just use git sub modules to share compiled artifacts?
C and C++ just force you to distribute DLLs - which I suppose you can do by pushing DLLs to a git submodules and have users access them when they compile them.
This is a document I'd like to keep track of and update as comments come in. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bIcI5foZi-fDmTV4GJgjl_gKC7QJBsFT5gDNmtQ6V8k/edit?usp=sharing