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" any non Javascript / ruby / go"

Would have thought Maven popularized standard package names and build dependency (POM) files.

Even more than that, Maven came up with the groupId concept, which I think is under-utilized by many other package managers... The leftpad fiasco could have been mitigated with it, for example.

How many C / C++ projects use Maven?

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