ivan.miljenovic: > Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> writes: > > > I'll just quickly mention one factor that contributes: > > > > * In 2.5 years we've gone from 10 libraries on Hackage to 2023 > > (literally!) > > > > That is a massive API to try to manage, hence the continuing move to > > focus on automated QA on Hackage, and automated tools -- no one wants > > to have to resolve those dependencies by hand. > > I think the "release early, release often" slogan is an affect on this > as well: we encourage library writers to release once they have > something that _works_ rather than waiting until it is perfect. The > fact that we encourage smaller, more modular libraries over large > monolithic ones also affects this. > > When considering Haskell vs Python, I wonder if the "stability" of > Python's libraries is due to their relative maturity in that the > "fundamental" libraries have had time to settle down. >
Note also that the Python core libraries model is what we are now just starting to do via the Haskell Platform. We're far more immature in that respect -- our stable, core, blessed library suite only just had its 2nd release. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
