One thing missing in the article is the all-or-nothing of dependencies in most languages. A package with millions of micro functions is nice, but if your program only uses 10 of them it doesn't matter, you program has all. Some dependency managers allows you to "disable" components, but they need to be manually picked and usually you can only disable chunks, not individual functions.

Wouldn't be nice to let the compiler package only the functions really used in the code and discard the rest? Do any language provide this? (C/C++?)