> Now that every modern language a package manager...
...they fail to integrate with dependencies written in any other language.
It's fine if you just want to sit a monoculture language software stack on top of a multilingual base platform. You can't make a functional system with one language alone, yet those who criticise distribution packaging architecture do so while simultaneously depending on this ability that language-specific package managers do not have. There is no viable alternative today. Most critics think they understand the general problem but only have narrow practical experience, so end up believing that their solution is superior while not considering the general multilingual software supply problem.
Nix isn't a solution either, because in the general case Nix isn't security-supporting arbitrary and multiple dependency versions either.
...they fail to integrate with dependencies written in any other language.
It's fine if you just want to sit a monoculture language software stack on top of a multilingual base platform. You can't make a functional system with one language alone, yet those who criticise distribution packaging architecture do so while simultaneously depending on this ability that language-specific package managers do not have. There is no viable alternative today. Most critics think they understand the general problem but only have narrow practical experience, so end up believing that their solution is superior while not considering the general multilingual software supply problem.
Nix isn't a solution either, because in the general case Nix isn't security-supporting arbitrary and multiple dependency versions either.