Golang, Python and Ruby all have solutions for this: vendoring. I know first hand that Python and Golang have OPTIONS for how you vendor code... My current Pyth

Golang, Python and Ruby all have solutions for this: vendoring. I know first hand that Python and Golang have OPTIONS for how you vendor code... My current Python project and ONE of my Golang projects are "non standard". The last time I used NPM, vendoring the code wasn't really a viable option, and it seems that things haven't improved. When googling NPM and vendoring, I learned that this isn't the FIRST time that this sort of issue has bitten the NPM user base. This article from 2 years ago http://www.letscodejavascript.com/v3/blog/2014/03/the_npm_debacle http://www.letscodejavascript.com/v3/blog/2014/03/the_npm_de... makes it clear that the community as a whole hasn't learned. Vendoring still seems much harder than it needs to be and based on my search results is activly discouraged.