[breatheoften]

I’m looking forward to a future where I no longer have to use languages that require the use of different mechanisms to reference functionality from library code than one uses to take advantage of your own source ... all the incidental complexity around custom compilation processes are in reality, just enormously non-productive relics of the past.

In the future — you have a set of entry points to your program, these are crawled by the language aware tool chain to identify and assemble all the requirements for the program (including 3rd party functionality). There’s no need for separate tools to manage packages, caches, and virtual environments — let’s just put all this logic into the compiler(s) — where necessary let the application describe the necessary state of the external world and empower language toolchains to ensure that it’s so ... let’s live in the future already ...