In the article, the author does say "I am not advocating to write things from scratch", while also describing third party dependencies as liabilities (e.g. security vulnerabilities), that people are too trusting of third party dependencies, that people overestimate the quality of third party dependencies.
I think you're splitting hairs if you're saying that these points from the article argue against package managers but don't argue against using third party dependencies.
I similarly think you're splitting hairs if to consider "package managers are useful?" and "third party dependencies are useful?" as distinct points.
I think you're splitting hairs if you're saying that these points from the article argue against package managers but don't argue against using third party dependencies.
I similarly think you're splitting hairs if to consider "package managers are useful?" and "third party dependencies are useful?" as distinct points.