Comment by kibwen

> But those did not learn from the lessons of Linux distributions. Cargo is particularly bad.

I recall a decade ago listening to native app developers lamenting how web pages were inferior to native apps and gnashing their teeth at why browsers wouldn't learn the lessons of native apps. It was, and remains, a shocking display of self-unawareness to fail to understand why web pages, despite doing many things worse than native apps, managed to do blow native apps out of the water when it comes to doing the things that actually matter to users. This is how it feels listening to the above comment; you have failed to reflect on why both programming language authors and programming language users were pushed to using language-specific package managers in the first place, and you have failed to put forth any improvements to OS-level package managers that would allow them to address those underlying flaws.