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by xupybd 1487 days ago
I found Perl suffered from dependency issues as well. Not the language but the modules you tend to want to use. Especially when they're underpinned by c libraries. I'd preference operating system libraries then fall back to Cpan. Over time it got harder to maintain older applications as the libraries dropped out of repositories. Have you found anything similar?
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You're right, and this is why I don't use third-party modules. If I need something I can't write myself, I use the shell version instead of a module.
Seems like you're jumping through a like of hoops to write thing in a Java-like fashion when you could be using Java, which has a much healthier ecosystem.
Java has many other shortcomings which keep me from using it.
python also has this problem