[hlandau]

The underlying lesson here should be that centralised package registries are unnecessary, yet new language ecosystems keep making the same mistake.

There's really no reason for NPM or crates.io to exist.

Go got this right.

[Turskarama]

They might not be strictly necessary but they tend to solve more issues than they cause. Many languages which don't come with a centralized repository built in will tend to spontaneously gain one because they are in fact useful.

[infamouscow]

"Drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not." - Internet person

This is exhausting.

Arguments like this don't persuade anyone—in fact, they do the opposite. They just highlight that you don't have any reasonable points to make, and are left relying on unfalsifiable and absurd claims.

[lifthrasiir]

"Unnecessary" is a very strong word and even Go has a centralized module proxy nowadays. So there is an obvious benefit of centralization here, and you should explain what and how much is the overside to give it up.

[infamouscow]

Zig also got this right.