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Add standard-libraries-discussion.md #25

Closed ghost closed 7 years ago

ghost commented 8 years ago

Hastily added document that started as an issue based on my gitter comment, but then decided to grow

@dickwall suggested I added as a PR, just to start some feedback (or not, as the case may be).

Ichoran commented 8 years ago

There's a very important factor regarding C++ that you don't really mention, which is that long-term inclusion of a library in a Linux distribution is a much better indication of the health and stability of a non-standard C++ project than is a jar living on Maven (partly because these things have just been around a lot longer for C++).

Taking lessons from early C++ days is therefore a bit tricky because the world was so different (no internet, no GitHub, no Linux, etc.).

But in any case, using C++ as a comparison now is also tricky because I know that libtiff is a plenty good Tiff library because it's already been curated by virtue of being in my Linux distribution for the past 3+ years, but there is no equivalent readily apparent for Scala (i.e. third parties are doing the work of selecting libs).

non commented 8 years ago

So while attempting to write a comment I closed this issue. Sorry! I just reopened it.

ghost commented 8 years ago

The document Is far from finished.... The Focus on c++ was just the start. Perhaps your comments are best added to the document as they are interresting to get peoples opinion, regardless of whether others agree?

dickwall commented 8 years ago

Was issue #25 closed deliberately @InTheNow ?

SethTisue commented 7 years ago

Closing since the SLIP process is being replaced by the new Scala Platform Process (http://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2016/11/28/spp.html).

This could be a good discussion to start/restart at http://contributors.scala-lang.org