> a)... Odin will never have an official pkg manager
Perhaps this explains why Odin has found such widespread usage and popularity. /s
> b)... Jonathan Blow, who's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization"
With such a grandiose title, before I first watched I thought it must be satire. Turns out, it is food for the credulous. I believe Jonathan Blow is less "seriously worried about software quality/complexity" than he is about marketing himself as the "last great hope". At least Blow's software has found success within its domain. However, I fear Blow's problem is the problem of all intellectuals: “An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out only in others.” Blow has plenty of opinions about software outside his domain, but IMHO very little curiosity about why his domain may be different than your own.
My own opinion is there is little evidence to show this is a software quality problem, and any assertion that is the case needs to compare the Rust model against the putatively "better" alternatives. Complex software, which requires many people to create, sometimes across great distances of time and space, will necessarily have and require dependencies.
Can someone show me a material quality difference between ffmpeg, VLC, and Samba dependencies and any sufficiently complex Rust program (even which perhaps has many more dependencies)?
~ ldd `which ffmpeg` | wc -l
231
Now, large software dependency graphs may very well be a
security problem, but it is a problem widely shared with all other software.