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		wheelerof4te on May 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Criticizing Hare language approach for generic dat... Language designers have every right to avoid complex features if such a feature impede the language in any way. Hare does the smart thing - it decouples the library distribution model from the language. After all, it's the programmers job to make sure that distribution and packaging of his/her library is as simple as possible.

bccdee on May 5, 2022 [–]

Every programmer should not be re-solving the problem of library distribution just to distribute their library. This is a solved problem; a go-style git repository model is the bare minimum that a language should have.

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