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by FridgeSeal 628 days ago
Given that form most of my projects, the run button is a convenient wrapper over “cargo run” or “cargo test — test-name”, or “python file.py” not super convinced of the argument.

Maybe in C/C++ where build systems are some kind of lovecraftian nightmare?
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kazinator 627 days ago
It's actually this language-specific packaging ghettos that exist precisely in order to hide the grotesque reality of how difficult it is to directly use third party code in these languages.

People making new languages should resist this trend. Do not implement another damn package manager. Think about the problem and make it easy for people to just use someone's tarball of code.

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jwrallie 628 days ago
Some Makefile knowledge does not hurt much, but other than that it starts to become a nightmare.

Another big difference is the size of the standard library. One can hold on his brain all the information needed to program in C, but I would argue that for C++ or Java it would be too taxing and an IDE is almost a requirement, the alternative being consulting the documentation often.

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