[munificent]

> Other systems for determining the versions to use are much more unpredictable and hard to understand than estimated (look at Dart and Cargo)

I'm one of the co-authors of Dart's package manager. :)

Yes, it is complex. Code reuse is hard and there's no silver bullet.

[klodolph]

Nice! I hope I wasn't coming across as critical of Dart's package manager, or Cargo for that matter.

[munificent]

It's OK. There are always valid criticisms of all possible package managers. It's just a hard area with gnarly trade-offs.