Spoiler alert! JavaScript has no language provided package manager.
If Odin gets moderately successful someone will probably reinvent it.
If Odin gets moderately successful someone will probably reinvent it.
It was only when people wanted a common approach to shipping both in browser and "native" that this glitch happened. I believe a standard library and "batteries" would have abated it entirely or resulted in a slightly less-bad situation. I do think Cargo is a slightly less-bad situation in many ways, and that it can be done better.
Nah. Npm was invented because node had its node_modules directory. But it was tricky to find and download modules you wanted to use. Until npm, you had to add libraries to node_modules by hand. And check them in to git or something. And keep them up to date somehow. Npm added a searchable index and a tool to automatically install all your modules. Npm was only bundled alongside Nodejs many years later.
Bundling was separate. I can’t remember if browserify predated npm or not. But it was a wild idea at the time to make node modules build for the browser too. Browserify - and later webpack and friends - work with or without npm.
Batteries also don't help if dependencies don't replace them. Arrayref functionality has been part of Rust std lib for a while now.