> than a typical language consumer, who can and often is easily falling into the languages emo wars.

How is ginger bill excluded from this group? No one is more invested in a language than its creator(s).

Sure, he might have given it a lot of thought, but he came up with some completely bonkers conclusions. If you don't want dependencies, DON'T IMPORT DEPENDENCIES. Don't make your dependencies extremely hard to add.

▲ kunley 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah when speaking about emotions: the amount of emo reactions here, including shouting with all caps, lets me think we've fallen into the old story: the author kind-of praised Go, but it's unfashionable here; the contrary, the fad here is to hate Go, so the author needed to get his hate. As simple as that. The rest is just trying to hide the hate under seemingly rational arguments.

Yawn.. saw it before...next, please

▲ Ygg2 4 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah, god forbid you use bolding to emphasize your phrase on this site. It's considered emotinal response, but yours is purely logical?

I'm glad you saw through me like a Superman through a lead book. Which is to say, not at all. I wasn't even thinking of Go. Where did this come from? I never mentioned Go. I don't use it or know how it does its packaging.

Are you projecting your feelings onto me as a sort of substitute for the HN gestalt? The discussion was about package managers being evil.

Now please return to the topic at hand.

Let's say you have NPM package manager. What prevents you a rational individual from saying:

      {
         "depedencies": {}
      }

	▲	kunley 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		You did not had Go in mind, but the [original commenter](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45167394#45168550) apparently did as he has quoted exactly the line about Go. Then you (and me) commented under that comment. So my snarky remark was about him, not about you. I think it's ok to rewind the tree up to see what is about whom. I can sincerely apologize that I have put replies to two distinct human beings, you and that other commenter, in one paragraph. Honestly, I can see that could let to confusion. I think we can stop now..

▲ gingerBill 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I have? Pray tell.

▲ Ygg2 4 days ago | parent [-]

Have what? Heavily invested in language you're building? I think that's a given.

Not clear-headed about this? https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1nbkwzt/packag...

    > gingerbill[S] 1 point 2 hours ago
    >  So a tool that enables evil is not an evil tool?

See counterpoint: hammers, freezers, cars, arrows, guns, bombs, planes, etc. Each of them *can* enable evil. Same way a package manager *can* enable sprawling dependency list.

▲ gingerBill 4 days ago | parent [-]

You see you just completely missed my replies to that too.

> Let's put it this way, what does a package manager specifically (not the other distinctions I make in the article) do (other than enable bad laziness and lack of proper vetting) that is actually good?

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1nbkwzt/packag...

	▲	Ygg2 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		And you missed the retort to that reply as well. It's a force multiplier and a time saver. Same as with any tool. And to reply to your next post: `> Getting to hell quicker is not a good thing. "Emerge on the other side quickly", the other side is still hell, you haven't emerged out of it.` Remaining stuck in limbo forever is worse than going to hell faster :) At least in hell you have a decent company. I'd rather use a hammer even if there is a higher chance to smack my fingers than to have to hit a nail repeatedely with my head.