On Jan 24, Peter Pentchev <r...@ringlet.net> wrote:
> This might be a minority, optimistic, rose-tinted-glasses kind of
> opinion, but I believe that the state of the Rust ecosystem today
> (I have no experience with the Go one) is quite similar to what Perl and
> Python modules were 25, 20, bah, even 15 years ago. Gradually, with time,
I am not familiar with the Python ecosystem, but I have been writing
Perl and packaging software with Perl dependencies for over 25 years and
I can confidently say that this is not true.
Perl libraries ("modules") generally never had the API instability that
I have seen in Rust libraries (but much less in Go, I believe).
In my experience forward compatibility has always been very important in
the Perl ecosystem.BTW, for the past couple of years I have been presenting to my other community, the network operators, about some of my Debian work and these problems with integrating complex Rust software in distributions, e.g. https://www.linux.it/~md/text/rpki-validators-euroix2023.pdf . -- ciao, Marco
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