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by ebiester 1741 days ago
What is your strategy that works for every packaging system and every version of every library you depend on?

Nothing says love like realizing that you are segfaulting due to a library version you didn't test against subtly changing its behavior.

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I use almost no libraries and stick to languages which have prioritized stability for 20+ years.

This amounts to using Perl, bash, and POSIX.

On the client side, of course, it is HTML and JS, which I use a very limited subset of to improve compatibility.