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Everyone at my company keeps using the term "dependency hell" when referring to literally dependency management and order of operations with a modern package manager like NPM that tracks versions and dependencies.
They've literally never experienced working with dynamically linked libraries and they think it's so hard because they have to understand a tree that exists in data form (e.g.
package-lock.json) and can be easily visualized vs a tangled file system andLD_LIBRARY_PATHor Windows standard search order /HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\KnownDLLs.It's pathetic.
These guys are living in the glory. I bet they don't even know all the info they need is just in a fucking config file, in a damn manual somewhere or in the stupid docs that people doesn't seem to bother reading anymore, or writing some decent ones.