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LESS THAN 200 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @misterjesus @Alex Gleason @anime graf mays 🛰️🪐 The number of times composer would fail silently astounds me. npm is pretty obvious if something goes wrong, and it typically only goes wrong when youre doing something you shouldnt be doing (100x more eyes looking at npm makes it less buggy imo)
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misterjesus | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I've had odd problems with NPM as well. I'm not too fond of dependency systems in general.
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LESS THAN 200 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @misterjesus @Alex Gleason @anime graf mays 🛰️🪐 I guess i tend to work on projects large enough where we need to use them. Im not managing that many libs manually
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misterjesus | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 

I guess i tend to work on projects large enough where we need to use them

I’ve worked on some very large projects (100,000s of lines of code), and we didn’t have them. We had a DLL folder (this was old school .NET Framework). It worked fine.

You don’t have people doing dumb stuff like importing a whole library for a trivial piece of code.

I try to avoid libraries these days unless it is worth using them.

 Im not managing that many libs manually

I suppose you haven’t been burned enough by dependency hell yet.

EDIT: BTW, I am not saying you should or shouldn’t use them. I am just saying that there are drawbacks to using dependency management systems.
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LESS THAN 200 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @misterjesus @Alex Gleason @anime graf mays 🛰️🪐 Im not about to impliment object factories in C++ from scratch... Im going to use com

Not gonna whinge about who has the bigger cock. I just don't think this is gonna be a constructive conversation in general