DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language [LWN.net]

DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Posted May 2, 2022 13:28 UTC (Mon) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418)
Parent article: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

I think the language is very interesting, and it is great that the compiler is GPLv3. I wonder what the designer's thoughts are on a language package manager. If someone creates one, it would be nice to see one that only accepts source code, and only accepts freely licensed code.

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DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Posted May 2, 2022 13:45 UTC (Mon) by ddevault (subscriber, #99589) [Link] (1 responses)

Language designer here. My thoughts on package management is that it is best left to distributions, who already know how to do it well. Dependencies should be selected thoughtfully and conservatively - central package management with easy-to-publish, easy-to-depend-on packages leads to the npm disease. Hare dependencies are installed to /usr/src/hare/third-party when you install "hare-irc" or similar from your system package manager.

DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Posted May 3, 2022 5:57 UTC (Tue) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

> My thoughts on package management is that it is best left to distributions

I applaud you for this.