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by gingerBill 551 days ago
It's not just that they are a mess accidentally, but they will necessarily become that. I won't discuss the full position here but in short: not everything needs to be automated, especially the automation of dependency hell. And making such things easier to do, is not a good thing and WILL lead to what mess we have no due to human nature.

Odin could trivially have a package manager and even one of the best support for it at the language level too because of how I designed what a package is in the language itself. I choose to not officially support a package manager because I don't want to encourage the path to hell.