dependencies – Raku Advent Calendar

Day 11 – Unix philosophy without left-pad, Part 2: Minimizing dependencies with a utilities package

A textual depiction of Camelia, the Raku mascot with the middle character underlined

In the previous post, I made a case for why programming languages should have a utility library that provides small-but-commonly-needed functions. Today I’m introducing a Raku package that I hope will fill that gap and discussing how this fits with the Unix philosophy

Day 6 – Following the Unix philosophy without getting left-pad

The Unix philosophy famously holds that you should write software that “does one thing, and does it well”. But following that advice too literally can lead to the micro-package dystopia that got us left-pad. But there is a way to write libraries that do only one thing without getting left-pad