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It just so happens that all of those languages share the worst design points, such as the need for a package manager at all and the classic "eval and equivalents run arbitrary code".

>All package managers have the insane security model of "arbitrary code execution with no constraints".

Not all of them, just the most popular ones for these highly sophisticated, well thought-out bunch of absolute languages.



What language does not have a popular package manager that provides code execution?


All of those that ship code instead of packages, e.g. C and Go.




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