2018 07 27 edit: Discussions from this article have been enlightening. I’ve made an addendum at the bottom. Russ Cox did a tweetstorm about his perspective on the dep/vgo/modules story. It’s not a lot of fun to re-litigate histories, but there are some subtle and important problems in this narrative, and it’s important to me that I have something on the record that objects to those problems as I s