[bluejekyll]

Although, the pony is still valid that every programming language has decided to implement its own pkg mgr.

Like all things in languages, the world needs to be reimplemented. Which is too bad, but I also never see a great alternative. Eventually people want everything they work on to be in the same language, which of course has the advantage that anyone in that language can hack on it, but the disadvantage that we always start anew every time a language gets created.

[sdegutis]

You know, earlier today I was thinking, "wouldn't it be great if we all just used one programming language for everything?" And I tried to imagine which one it could be. And all had different strengths and weaknesses. C is great for raw speed, but ends up with very rigid programs, and is easy to shoot your foot in. Rust solves the second problem but not the first. Ruby solves both, but is much slower. LuaJIT solves all these, but doesn't have a great ecosystem. Etc etc etc. Every programming language exists because someone needed the trade-offs that it made, and no other language before it made them. And the package management situation of a given language is usually tied to the nature of how that language works, meaning you can't just use Homebrew to install Python and Lua and Ruby and Node and Rust packages.

[bluejekyll]

I disagree about Rust (I assume you mean rigidity) you just need to learn how to work with it's vtable's through &Traits and/or enums. In terms of speed and foot shots, it definitely beats C.

I think Rust is the greatest programming language of our generation.

But regardless (and I meant irony, not pony in the original post), not everyone will agree with me, so everyone will want their own language. What we need is a general purpose packaging tool (I like cargo, but apt-get could serve equally well) which could support any language.