While I also think url based imports are a weird idea, it might just stem from the fact that I haven’t used it much, it might be wonderful, who knows.

But what I’d like to question is why the idea of parsing everything is considered bad. Semver itself, while miles ahead of what came before, is still just lies we tell the compiler.

You can never actually rely on the fact that a miner fix will not be a breaking change and the like.

Rich Hicky had a great talk on the subject of imports and breakage, and the conclusion that I agree with was to actually load and check every function in all the libraries you use, so that if there is an incompatible change you will not be none the wiser.

I’m glad people are trying to experiment here, as package management is far from a solved problem and issues with it cause sweat, tears and blood to most devs during their careers.