Cox: Our Software Dependency Problem

Here is an extensive look athandling software dependencies from Russ Cox. "Dependencymanagers have scaled this open-source code reuse model down: now,developers can share code at the granularity of individual functions oftens of lines. This is a major technical accomplishment. There are myriadavailable packages, and writing code can involve such a large number ofthem, but the commercial, legal, and reputational support mechanisms fortrusting the code have not carried over. We are trusting more code withless justification for doing so."