Seems a bit hyperbolic to call it a curse. Things like these are on a spectrum for all languages and languages like C and many others are afflicted by ecosystems that are more or less community driven and leverage libraries to a greater or lesser extent. Doesn't really have to do with Lisps per se.
jgeada 4 minutes ago [-]
It really applies to all languages where the very process of developing extends the language. It is the modern day variant of the Babel curse: you end up with a perfect language for your problem understood by a single individual.
esafak 2 minutes ago [-]
This is called fragmentation. The advent of slop has caused many repos to stop accepting contributions, and people maintaining their own forks. I do it too, diligently maintaining repos because the original maintainers were either too slow for me, unwilling to add my features, or had moved on.
Since code is now cheap I think it is not the end of the world, but it does suck a bit for users, who may want features from multiple forks.
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Since code is now cheap I think it is not the end of the world, but it does suck a bit for users, who may want features from multiple forks.