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by gamesbrainiac 2748 days ago
Package manages often determine the success of an entire ecosystem. To give you an idea of how hard this is, Go still has not been able to come up with proper package management. Some of the best engineers in the world built that language.
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> Package manages often determine the success of an entire ecosystem.

Nobody said it wasn't great, just that whether he is good to make a package manager, doesn't determine if he is a good fit for anything else. If that hiring position was to build a system to manage packages, sure, he is probably the best hire for that, but theses skills are specific to exactly this task.

A great interviewer though would have kept his contact information though and would have tried to put him somewhere else though. He may have not been a good fit for what they were looking for, but they can clearly use his skill in some ways some where else.

You're absolutely right. the best metric is to see how quickly he can reverse a binary tree. now that is grounds for instant dismissal !
macOS had multiple package managers prior to Homebrew.
And they sucked.