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Python has a library for everything but.. (programming.dev)

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[–] sbv 63 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I love shitting on Python, but I feel like all those problems are present in libraries for other languages as well. There's a tonne of that crap for JS/TS.

Similarly, I find a fair number of Rust crates (that I want to use) have virtually no doc or inline examples, and use weird metaprogramming that I can't wrap my head around.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like there's a very fine balance for the effort required to publish a package.

Too easy and you get npm.

Too hard and you get an empty repo.

I feel like Java is actually doing a relatively good job here. Most packages are at least documented a bit, though obviously many are outdated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Uh, there are an absolute fuckload of Java libs out there with nothing more than auto-generated garbage Javadocs.

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