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Do any package managers use bittorrent? I associate bittorrent with distributing large files, but it seems like it would really help scaling. Most traffic to package managers is from CI systems, which could instead run their own local seeding nodes.

Distributing binaries built against musl is counter-intuitive to me. When I run them on my machine, they're dynamically linked to glibc! The main advantage AIUI is that you don't depend on new glibc features, so you get a more portable executable.

I really like managed languages: GC makes some things much easier, and they often have great debugging tooling. Distributing compiled programs is delightful though. They're easy to package, easy to distribute, and start up is really fast. It's a huge upside.