> Java's packaging system sucks as does all the similar ones like C#, C++ etc compared to JavaScript's IMO. There is one gazillion things that are much more a

> Java's packaging system sucks as does all the similar ones like C#, C++ etc compared to JavaScript's IMO. There is one gazillion things that are much more a problem than "namespace conflicts" in packaging and package management. Including security & code authenticity, parallel multi-version handling, sensibility to side effects, speed, auditing and reproducibility. And in these domain the JavaScript packaging system generally range from being 'catastrophic' to 'absolutely terrible'. If I have to take an example package management system for the world I would certainly quote cargo, Nix, Guix or Spack but certainly not npm which is quite close to what you should really not do for a package manager.