[TheDong]

> If there's something seriously wrong with vgo's dependency versioning then it should be possible to explain it in less than 100k words.

That is a very lazy argument.

It's perfectly reasonable to claim something is flawed for numerous complex reasons. It's equally reasonable to claim that a complex flaw may be difficult to explain concisely.

Most importantly though, I don't think Sam is claiming that there's an obvious fatal flaw in vgo, but rather that it is not the ideal choice given the problem space.

To make that more subtle argument, it is necessary to fully define the alternatives and problem space, which is what a lot of the words are attempting to do.

The tl;dr would be along the lines of "vgo knowingly makes a set of tradeoffs which I think are worse than the tradeoffs that are possible with another hypothetical option, which I am also proposing"... but that tl;dr is not really a very useful one, and attempting to condense a more meaningful one will lose a bit too much nuance I think.

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The post could stand to have an introduction that lays out its arguments at a high level, as is hammered into students at every level of English class.