I feel like Scala went in the same direction and I believe sbt failure is a huge part of it. They should have adapted maven from the beginning but instead developed this finicky tool which failed Scala. Java is thriving at the same time because maven is stable and bulletproof.

It’s insane how important package management and ecosystem is for a language.

Anyone get any steam forking them yet?

Kinda makes me wonder whether such things as Ruby Gems can and should be distributed. Sounds like alternatives to Bundler are already in the works. I suppose supply chain attacks would be the weakness on a distributed model.