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Python with PyPI, C# with Nuget, Docker with Dockerhub, Java with Maven Central, hell even just regular Linux packages from dodgy repositories...
Supply chain attacks concern almost everything everyone everywhere.
This is one of the more important reasons to minimize dependencies and be very picky about the ones we adopt.
Absolutely this. It almost seems like a controversial opinion sometimes, but microdependencies is a code smell imo. This could largely be improved by providing a more extended standard lib, at the cost of innovation and velocity maybe. I found this interesting: https://blessed.rs/crates
IDK about you but the company I work for can't live without npm packages doing almost everything. For example: the is-even package.