[tavert]

Things are decent on average, but there's a persistent carelessness and rush to do things without paying attention to the consequences. More in packages than base nowadays, but there's a lot of merging and releasing things immediately without waiting for code review that could have caught mistakes before breaking users.

[simonbyrne]

Out of curiosity: what language has a package ecosystem that in your opinion does do this right?

[tavert]

Large Apache projects, notable widely-used c++ projects like boost, llvm, zmq, cmake, the c++ language standards committee itself, all take their time and rarely if ever release changes/bugfixes immediately. Things go through review, testing, release candidates, and people other than original authors of code provide input before normal users get their hands on anything. The core pydata projects take their time and are cautious about breaking things.

[petre]

Dlang. But it's a compiled language and you have the option of statically compiling all your dependencies. The package manager is also quite simple and just works.

https://github.com/dlang/dub