mhoyeMar 6

I'm trying very hard not to get into a fight on github after being told that a package manager should implement _mechanism_ not _policy_, a canard I haven't heard in probably 15 years.

Deciding not to set safe, reasonable defaults is an abdication of responsibility. It's negligence. We've tried doing it that way and we just know that now.

Show threadmhoyeMar 6

"Respectfully, there's no such thing as providing mechanism without policy. There is only mechanism with safe, well-considered default policy or unsafe, unconsidered default policy."

Going to bite my tongue after that.

Show threadDarryl Shpak
@mhoye This was my immediate thought. *Some* behaviour is the default! Setting defaults to zero or false or null or whatever is still choosing defaults. You can choose better ones…
Mar 6 at 1:30pmWeb