You had me until this statement. The idea that "more and more libraries" is going to solve the (rather large) quality problems we have in the software industry is .. misguided.
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You had me until this statement. The idea that "more and more libraries" is going to solve the (rather large) quality problems we have in the software industry is .. misguided.
see:
Less is more, including other people’s libraries.
A little copying is better than a big dependency.
Most people use shit libraries in shit languages. NPM slopfests have no bearing on what I'm talking about.
We have very different opinions on what makes a great language
Haskell has a great type system, but it fails miserably at many trivial tasks I care about :
1) sum 1 million integers == stackoverflow (big lul)
2) massive memory cliffs for using the wrong type [1], which is not uncommon
3) poor metaprogramming facilities
4) difficult documentation
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76470000/is-there-a-reas...