On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 15:04:53 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 07:14:34 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
I think one of the great things about Rails and Ruby is all
the libraries and plugins that are available. If I want to do
something, in RoR there's a big chance there's already a
library for that. In D, there's a big chance I need to
implement it myself.
I like implementing things myself :P
That's the question I dread most at meetings now: "is there a
gem for this?" idk, in the time it takes to search for and
evaluate third party code, I could have just written it myself.
Especially since libraries almost always need some kind of
customization for our specific case anyway!
There's a few exceptions where something is hard to write, but
most things just aren't that hard.
I agree with this, but with a caveat:
The valuable work in a 3rd party lib is more often the design
than the body of the implementation. Designing a good API and
general design for a library requires experience and perspective
that I don't have in most problem spaces, but a quick bit of
reading and the internals are often trivial to reproduce.
I think this is particularly relevant in D; Implementation is
made easy, but the flexibility available makes the design stage
especially important. That is not to say that it's harder to make
good designs with D, more that it's feasible to make *even
better* designs if you have the expertise and time.
