2 Jan
2022
2 Jan
'22
9:56 a.m.
I'm hoping that this doesn't devolved into another language preference war.
What I really wanted to discuss was the nature of adding value and maybe
nail down what's meant by value. The roffians versus the texans was just
a good excuse.
One example to me is that while it has it's own thing, perl packages are
available via dnf/apt so one doesn't have to add extra steps to keep a
system up to date. Things like pear and npm are negative value to me;
they're an extra step. Maybe the mentality is that someone else maintains
the system and they just maintain their little corner.
My classic example is make. Works pretty well, was missing a few things
that Sun and Gnu added later. The negative value stuff is [a-z]make,
ninja, meson and all that. Does about the same stuff but in an incompatible
way.