On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 07:56:43 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
Its been my firm believe that lose packages are a detriment to
a language.
It isn't good if many of the interesting packages are
unmaintained, as it gives an sense of being in the past.
Half baked solutions are no solutions. Packages need to be part
of the language standard or "extended" library.
Standard libraries should stay small as they are hard to
deprecate. Have official lists instead.
One can simply look at Go. 100.000 packages, 98% are junk,
unfinished, not maintained, etc. And people are forced to dive
into the junk to find the good ones. Its the same with other
languages and there unenforced third party packages.
There is a solution for this: "awesome lists"
https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go
The problem for a small language is more when a very useful
library become unmaintained, then people wonder why not somebody
else took over.
