[pknopf]

There will likely be some kind of npm at some point.

[forty]

Yes, i think recreating an npm kind of central place for your project dependencies seems almost required if you want to avoid depending on a different version of a lib in each file of your project.

I cannot understand the benefit of this scheme honestly. I would have preferred they fix something npm is lacking, like adding the ability to sign packages

[jhgb]

If the goal is to get rid of NPM, why would you add another one in the future?

[afiori]

The goal is not to eliminate npm, but to decouple it from the runtime itself