NPM Package Manager Debate
Discussions compare npm's usability, security, speed, and ecosystem to package managers like pip, gem, and Maven in other languages, debating its strengths, weaknesses, and alternatives like yarn and pnpm.
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and (him) as a javascript developer, isn't npm in a similar place?
What package managers do you use, and what does npm do differently that makes you unwilling to use it?
Having an npm like ecosystem is hardly better.
Maybe python's dependency management (pypi/pip) is nicer than NPM? (I think it is, at least)
Have you used npm before? It's a complete mess.
This kind of thing is why people are saying npm is easier...
You sure it's not just because npm has been around for 15 years as the default package manager for node?
npm (or yarn) for the most part works much better than python package managers
what? npm is, for a lack of better word, shit. not worse than Python situation (coming from somebody who was excited when new-style classes were introduced), but that is a very low bar. ($DAYJOB makes me use npm _and_ pnpm, nx, nvm, corepack and I guess some other tools I don't know about just to make the goddamn thing build.)
This seems like a description of NPM in the node ecosystem, they are incrementally solving all these issues.