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0 pointsbad_user11y ago0 comments

You could of course use a platform that doesn't depend on OS dependent binaries (like the JVM) and a package manager that likes ad-hoc and easily created repositories and that has lots of plugins available (Maven, or derivates like Gradle, SBT or Leiningen).

I worked with a lot of platforms, such as PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, Node.js and .NET. I felt the pain of pip, easy_install, setup-tools, virtualenv, bundler, gems, cpan, pear, rvm, rbenv, npm, bower, apt-get or whatever else I used at some point or another. And I swear, in spite of all the criticism that Java or Maven get and in spite of all warts, in terms of packaging and deployment for me it's been by far the sanest. I mean, it's not without warts, heaven forbid to end up with classpath issues due to transitive dependencies, but at the very least it is tolerable.

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davexunit11y ago

>You could of course use a platform that doesn't depend on OS dependent binaries (like the JVM) and a package manager that likes ad-hoc and easily created repositories and that has lots of plugins available (Maven, or derivates like Gradle, SBT or Leiningen).

I don't think being locked into the JVM is a very good solution. Java libraries can depend on other non-Java components.

pmahoney11y ago

There are Java jars with native binaries, just sayin. Though I do like Maven and Java quite a bit.

https://bitbucket.org/xerial/sqlite-jdbc

https://github.com/twall/jna

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