[crdoconnor]

Package management is a task filled with subtle pitfalls that is much, much harder than it looks on the surface.

It's a lot like syncing files - e.g. how Dropbox looked similarly deceptively easy to build but really wasnt.

IMHO the fact that the homebrew guy didn't get hired and that golang package management was a dumpster fire for years isn't coincidental. Both were part and parcel of a systemic bias that plagues Google's culture that they're blissfully unaware of.

[philwelch]

Google doesn’t do package management well because they don’t do package management at all; they have a monorepo. If anything, the systematic bias is that Google built their way around an entire class of problems that others still face.

[skybrian]

This has something to do with why the Go team waited so long to solve package management. Having little experience with it, they tried leaving it to the community.

But I don't think you can generalize to the whole company. For example, the Dart package manager is pretty nice.