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lol JavaScript
This truly has grown past a JS problem. NPM was kind of the first time dependencies were installed by the project rather than through the OS. But nowadays this has become the norm, golang, rust, and to an extent python also work by installing dependies directly from git for the most part. This isn't going to get any better unless we revert to OS based dependencies which noone wants to do because developers want the latest and greatest model.
A few operating systems (e.g. OpenBSD) do actually (try to) enforce using
pkgfor Perl dependencies, due to Perl being "system Perl" instead of "packaged Perl".Debian does as well for anything that is packaged. For python, golang, rust, etc as well.