22 Nov
2011
22 Nov
'11
3:53 p.m.
The 22/11/11, Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense wrote:
On 11/22/2011 13:36, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
You can't seriously be suggesting that switching to Haskell would increase the size of the pacman developer pool.
Notice I didn't support Haskell. I'm talking about high-level languages in general. Not all of these languages are widely used nor very scalable for a package manager.
I don't think there's any compelling reason to rewrite pacman in another language.
I already gave some good reasons in this thread, though.
Code language should not be chosen based on popularity. C is used in most unix-like software because of its quality and not as a consequence of the available developer pool for it.
I tend to agree. -- Nicolas Sebrecht