I hope that whatever solutions we come up with to handle the too-many-dependencies problem don’t stifle people’s motivation to create and share new packages. It’s not a given that useful libraries are going to exist. Too much friction and people will just stop sharing code.
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But putting all code in a header file is an unnatural workflow, so people don’t often bother. Also, discoverability and versioning issues and so forth. GitHub helps some, but not as much as a package manager.
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There's a great package manager for C called apt-get. It's been delighting and frustrating me for more than 20 years. The newcomers are sometimes differently frustrating or delightful but most of the challenges remain.
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