> Afaik NodeJS was pioneering dependency management at the time, and all modern dependency systems (ES6, Python PipEnv, Go modules, Rust Cargo) drew inspiration

> Afaik NodeJS was pioneering dependency management at the time, and all modern dependency systems (ES6, Python PipEnv, Go modules, Rust Cargo) drew inspiration from it. They drew a lot of inspiration from the Ruby ecosystem and its gems. It was even a lot of the same people contributing. Somehow, they ended up with a much worse tooling story, though. I think a lot of it stems from the browser/server divide they had to contend with and the worse common library.