Dependency Management

“If I have seen further,” Isaac Newton wrote in a 1675 letter to fellow scientist Robert Hooke, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”, referring to the work of Descartes and Hooke which he built upon.

Why Bother

Writing software is a very expensive process, and most systems we interact with today, as technologists or even as regular consumers, are the product of thousands of years of work by different individuals all across the world.

For example, the Linux kernel alone is estimated to have cost USD 1.4B dollars. Developing a full Linux distro is said to cost 60,000 Person-Years or 10.8B dollars…