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For development you don't want to use the distros tools anyways. The distro packages are there primarily to build the other packages, they also provide the basics of a development environment suitable for small tasks and testing. For more serious development you want a level of control over your tooling that distro packages just can't provide (NixOS being the only exception I know about).

This is why most languages have their own compiler/runtime distributions and module/package system.



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