As mentioned in #21 & #27, conflicting dependencies can lead to missing or faulty features such as:
- missing catalog content (Newtonsoft.Json)
- catalog content unpacking failure (Newtonsoft.Json)
- faulty communications with ABB IRC5 robot controllers (ABB.Robotics.Controllers.PC / PCSDK)
This issue is common to all GH plugins (ArchiCAD, Vray and RhinoMembrane) , so McNeel developers are most likely in the best position to fix this but it might be possible to find a trick which would only be applied to HAL dependencies.
Some of these conflicts can be solved by enabling COFF loading in GrasshopperDeveloperSettings:

Plugins with which compatibility issues have been reported at some point: