We're probably talking past one another due to my imprecision: Zig can manage packages. It can pull in a Zig package using a reference to a Git repository on

We're probably talking past one another due to my imprecision: Zig can manage packages. It can pull in a Zig package using a reference to a Git repository on GitHub, for example. It can pin that to a hash and cache it. It can specify dependencies. This is, strictly speaking, a "package manager" but is not what people normally think of when you mention that. Zig does not have blessed mechanisms that pull from a central repository of packages. Having a central repository is normally what people think of when they talk about a "package manager" (node, cargo, deno, etc.). Yes, those managers could conceivably not use the central repository and specify everything explicitly, but nobody ever uses them like that.