On 4/16/2013 12:02 PM, Rodrick Brown wrote:
I came across this article which sums up some of the issues I have with
modern programming languages. I've never really looked at Javascript for
anything serious or Node itself but I found this article really
informational.
"The “Batteries included” philosophy of Python was definitely the right
approach during the mid 90’s and one of the reasons that I loved Python
so much; this was a time before modern package management, and before it
was easy to find and install community-created libraries. Nowadays
Python gets used in places like corporations and schools where one
cannot simply install stuff off the net, but must fill out a form asking
permission, or maybe not ask at all.
though I think it’s counter-productive. Developers in the community
rarely want to bother trying to compete with the standard library, so
people are less likely to try to write libraries that improve upon it."
Except that there is competition for many modules. That said, there are
old modules that probably would not be added today, and some the dev
would like to remove. (Some were for 3.0.)
http://caines.ca/blog/programming/the-node-js-community-is-quietly-changing-the-face-of-open-source/
The irony is that the author goes on to say that the node.js community
'works' because they all use the same infrastructure battery: git and
git-hub ;-).
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