Reading the reasons...I could have told you this when Deno was released. Oh wait, pinned package versions are too specific??? Maybe you want some sort of tool where you can give it constraints on package versions and it'll find the minimal set that fits these constraints. Some sort of...package manager? And big url imports are kind of ugly no? If only there was a way to resolve them via a manifest that this package manager could also read. Some sort of package...file, like a package.json.
I dunno man, this feels like stuff the Deno people could have predicted. I don't understand why people treat packages like the boogeyman. You need a way to share and reuse libraries. Then you need a way to version these libraries. Then you need a way to reuse versions of said libraries. Then you need a manager to handle the reusing and constraint solving of libraries. It's a pretty logical sequence of events. I know it seems icky and gross and we should all just be real programmers and write our own dependencies, but you don't get paid to write dependencies.
I guess that's the issue. The people who write stuff like Deno or Node do indeed get paid to write dependencies. And it's too easy to listen to the people complaining about straw men like is-odd when in fact, for all the messiness, developers get a lot of utility out of packages.
I dunno man, this feels like stuff the Deno people could have predicted. I don't understand why people treat packages like the boogeyman. You need a way to share and reuse libraries. Then you need a way to version these libraries. Then you need a way to reuse versions of said libraries. Then you need a manager to handle the reusing and constraint solving of libraries. It's a pretty logical sequence of events. I know it seems icky and gross and we should all just be real programmers and write our own dependencies, but you don't get paid to write dependencies.
I guess that's the issue. The people who write stuff like Deno or Node do indeed get paid to write dependencies. And it's too easy to listen to the people complaining about straw men like is-odd when in fact, for all the messiness, developers get a lot of utility out of packages.