Post #2659778

@vaurora@mstdn.social since CPAN we've built a world of online code sharing, but maybe we've hit a peak and need to have a cycle of practitioners maintaining the skills to just build what they need in-house, and become less dependent on individual developers building enormous projects based on massive dependency trees that they have no hope of understanding or maintaining if they needed to patch or fork them. You need a lot less "supply chain management" when the supply chain is me, myself and I. Just for clarity I don't mean that every webapp dev needs to write their OS kernel from scratch, or that _any_ code sharing is bad, but that it could well be limited to OS-provided APIs and parts that are too technical and fiddly for individuals (like encryption). I keep coming back to the phrase "bicycle for the mind", simple tools that I can use rather than all-encompassing frameworks that I have to learn to fit the problem into.