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by emporas 652 days ago
> All languages with package systems turn into a horrible quality over time.

If a new package manager (or the existing one, cargo) tries to fetch packages and doesn't fetch it correctly, the users will be faced with thousands of compilation errors in a moments notice. The new package manager will be abandoned, or the users will revert the existing one to a previous version in which it worked as expected.