I have to agree. Installing dependencies for some git repos is a total crapshoot...

cshimmin · on June 13, 2023

So, the solution is that everyone should write code as self-contained C++ code and not use any software libraries ever. Dependency hell has been solved for all time!

josephg · on June 13, 2023

Python was released in 1991. It obviously didn’t get package management right, just like C and C++ didn’t figure it out in the 70s.

Take a look at rust’s Cargo for what a modern package manager should look like. Or deno / Go if you swing that way.

Which old language gets package management right? None of them. None of them get it right.

And sure - conda / venv / CMake / etc help. But last century’s bad design decisions still shine through.

sp332 · on June 13, 2023

Well, in the cases where the libraries are causing more work than they are solving. Then yes.

Tostino · on June 13, 2023

There is a happy medium... somewhere. After following Postgres development for the better part of a decade, I think it's definitely closer to the python side of things... But man they (python) do make it hard to like using that ecosystem.

The flip side is like you said... You will just have to reimplement everything yourself and then you can never worry about dependencies again! Just hope you didn't introduce some obscure security issue in your hashmap implementation .