[peterkelly]

The author is the co-creator of Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and the first Unix windowing system.

Whatever you may think of his arguments or slide templates, I don't think "innocent bystander" is an accurate label.

[_kb]

Even in the absence of other work/history, these are literally slides from a talk they gave on the topic, promoting a tool (https://deps.dev) to help more people understand and approach the problem.