In-reply-to » @markwylde No, it doesn't have to be this way, but it is (almost) always this way. When a programming language makes it too easy to manage dependencies, you inevitably get microdependencies. It doesn't help that many people learn JavaScript or Python as their first language.

@prologic@twtxt.net All I know is, this problem is much less prevalent in languages without official package managers, like C or Lua.

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