“You laugh, but these javascript kids have got a creative end-run around the problem of dependency management that works much better than *yours* does, doesn't it?”
@oxytocin ah there you go "(if you're familiar with modern packages managers like cargo or npm, then the overall mechanism shouldn't surprise you - Nix works in a similar way, although without a centralized repository.)"
@oxytocin using git urls for decentralized repos has a fair few downsides as well though, although not sure i have anything on hand to link to