Comment by AtlasBarfed

A VM with a fixed spec can delegate os churn and the like to the VM maintainers and thus protect the managed code authors aka the JVM.

Does it help the dependency ecosystem churn? No.

Until be get very fine grained api versioning info (like at method / function granularity and even then is it good enough and what oss author could maintain that info outside of a small api) then library version info will simply be a coarse grained thing.

If only there was a super smart AI with great breadth of knowledge with capabilities to infer this relationship graph, but I don't think there's a lot of research into AIs like that these day, right?