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posted by martyb on Thursday January 24 2019, @10:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the ask-the-PHB dept.

Russ Cox, who developed the dependency/package management system for Go, writes about the problems with software dependencies. A choice excerpt:

Dependency managers now exist for essentially every programming language. [...] The arrival of this kind of fine-grained, widespread software reuse is one of the most consequential shifts in software development over the past two decades. And if we’re not more careful, it will lead to serious problems.

A package, for this discussion, is code you download from the internet. Adding a package as a dependency outsources the work of developing that code [...] to someone else on the internet, someone you often don’t know. By using that code, you are exposing your own program to all the failures and flaws in the dependency. Your program’s execution now literally depends on code downloaded from this stranger on the internet. Presented this way, it sounds incredibly unsafe. Why would anyone do this?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @04:45AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @04:45AM (#791615)

    So really, you have no idea what might be going on under that heat sink.

    If I remove the heatsink while it is running to check the cpu intel throttles, but AMD burns up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf0VuRG7MN4 [youtube.com]

    This is why I say intel is more durable.

  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday January 25 2019, @08:15PM

    by Immerman (3985) on Friday January 25 2019, @08:15PM (#791979)

    If you remove the heatsink while using your computer, you've got bigger issues than the quality of your CPU...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @12:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @12:05AM (#792110)

    That video is almost 14 years old.