Are there contemporary programming languages that do NOT have the ability to import functions or values or whatever from other files? Are there situations in which that would be a feature?

snek_boi@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Are there contemporary programming languages that do NOT have the ability to import functions or values or whatever from other files? Are there situations in which that would be a feature?

Ethan@programming.dev · 1 year ago

There are certainly situations where it would be valuable to be able to place limits on what can be imported, but I can’t imagine trying to work with a language that was completely devoid of imports. Because that would mean 100% of your source would have to be in a single file, which sounds absolutely awful for anything but the most trivial applications.