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> for example the stream of issues from npm et al.

Curious, what distros where affected by npm supply chain attacks?

It's npm that's affected, therefore it's not even considered when choosing language/ecosystem for writing distro tools. You'll find no sane distro writing package manager in javascript precisely to avoid this joke of a supply chain.

I quite like the OpenBSD approach to Go and Rust projects in ports. They store all the dependencies and their hashes in the build recipe, not trusting the project ones. And they’re more readable.

Here is jujutsu’s list of dependencies[0] and their hashes[1]. As an aside, that’s why I don’t like those packages managers. Something like Python’s numpy or lib curl, get sliced into atomic portions.

[0]: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/devel/jujutsu/c...

[1]: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/devel/jujutsu/d...

ECMA-262 doesn't require the use of NPM or NodeJS. (In fact, they are at odds, even 10+ years after modules were standardized in ES6.)

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