[oblio]

Well, they didn't need to read much about Java in this case, frankly. Just creating a simple Java project with Maven would have showed the groupId concept (namespaces preventing top level squatting), for example.

https://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/index.html#h...

Anyway, too late now, now Python & co. are finding their own, alternative, ways to retrofit stuff like this.

[jen20]

Lack of namespacing is a trap most language package managers have fallen into sadly: even Cargo sees it as an “advantage” not to have them, apparently.

I think that is extremely short sighted, and that all packages including standard ones should be namespaced.