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A slight tangent, but as someone who is sort of in the "respect but do not use" Clojure category, Leiningen seems pretty amazing. I really hope future language package managers look to it for inspiration; it seems to get practically everything right.

> One of the thing Cheney says in his talk about gb is that nobody likes the .lock files[1]

That may be true if by "nobody" he means Go users, but outside of the Go community things are different. I haven't heard many complaints about them in the Ruby or Dart ecosystems, and the value they provide (repeatable builds!) is very real.

Maven-style dependency managers (including leiningen) just contain the locks inline in the regular build script.