Native dependency cache

Posted Jan 29, 2025 21:00 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Native dependency cache by bluca
Parent article: Vendoring Go packages by default in Fedora

> Sure? Fedora would face huge challenges if RH evaporated in a puff of smoke tomorrow morning.

Go also would need to adapt, but it's not dependent on Google anymore. If you look at Go development, it has a robust stream of non-Google contributions. Its governing model is like that of systemd, a "Politburo" group with non-public meetings making decisions on RFCs, but otherwise it's healthy.

Rust is already independent. If I had to put my bet, I'd bet on Rust and Go being around longer than Fedora.

> Let's not joke around - Dart, Flutter, Angular (ok ok not a language, a framework, still) are for all intent and purposes dead.

Angular is a framework, not a language. Dart/Flutter are absolutely alive, and moving up in popularity. They are the most popular combo for mobile development at the moment.

BTW, Fedora/Debian also totally failed on mobile.

> Yes? You seriously don't know how those work?

Hi, my name is Jia Tan. Would you mind taking up this patch to add color output for apt?

> Yeah sure, it's distribution developers who are uploading malware to Pypi. WTF?

No. It's the distro developers who were pushing against robust package management. As a result, PIP is more like APT/RPM than Cargo.