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		munificent on March 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Go mitigates supply chain attacks > Other systems for determining the versions to use are much more unpredictable and hard to understand than estimated (look at Dart and Cargo) I'm one of the co-authors of Dart's package manager. :) Yes, it is complex. Code reuse is hard and there's no silver bullet.

klodolph on March 31, 2022 [–]

Nice! I hope I wasn't coming across as critical of Dart's package manager, or Cargo for that matter.

munificent on March 31, 2022 | [–]

It's OK. There are always valid criticisms of all possible package managers. It's just a hard area with gnarly trade-offs.

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