Yeah, I’ve long thought that the model of a relatively sparse standard library in a sufficiently expressive language is the ideal. What’s really needed is a new

Yeah, I’ve long thought that the model of a relatively sparse standard library in a sufficiently expressive language is the ideal. What’s really needed is a newspeak-style parameterized “push” module system (or ML functors) to replace “pull”-style imports. This way, modules can declare that they need certain functionality and then the end user provides it: instead of npm-style infinitely-deep dependency trees. https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/06/ban-on-imports.html?m=1 https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/06/ban-on-imports.html?m=1 https://wiki.c2.com/?BanOnImports https://wiki.c2.com/?BanOnImports