I am (still) looking for programming languages that meet the two following requirements:
1. Has a project-local, nested dependency/module mechanism (see https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/miscellaneous-notes/page/transitive-dependencies-and-the-commons for explanation)
2. Does *not* have an import-all feature; ie. a way to import a module that causes all its contents to be injected into scope directly. I want languages that require explicit references of some kind (prefixing things with the module name is good enough).
@joepie91@pixie.town I think Zig?
@joepie91@pixie.town well not the first condition, but I guess that's from it not having a first-class package manager (yet)?
@natty I mean, a package manager isn't really necessary for this property to hold true; but the language does need to define a dependency model (even if it leaves the providing of those dependencies undefined).
Node.js had the node_modules structure before npm existed, for example, and that structure is what gave it this property
@natty How does one load modules if there is no resolution?
@joepie91@pixie.town I assume files directly, because we haven't read up on/tried much Zig yet
@joepie91@pixie.town From what we understand, the stdlib is special-cased for resolution, and everything else is a file import of a table
So there's some similarity to JS imports I suppose?
@joepie91@pixie.town I guess in that case it depends if we consider the lack of built-in module resolution a disqualifying property?