So you are saying that npm is better than pip?? I'm not saying pip is good, but npm?
NPM is ghastly though
npm is just plain up terrible. never worked for me first try without doing weird stuff
I don't know what cargo is, but npm is the second worst package manager I've ever used after nuget.
cargo is the package manager for the Rust language
I've never had an issue with nuget, at least since dotnet core. My experience has it far ahead of npm and pip
cargo is rust
what's wrong with nuget? I have to say I like the "I want latest" "no, all your dependencies are pinned you want to update latest you gotta decide to do it" workflow. I can think of some bad problems when you try to do fancy things with it but the basic case of "I just want to fetch my program's dependencies" it's fine.
I'm guessing they only used it 10 years ago when it was very rough around the edges and didn't integrate well with the old .NET Framework. It was quite bad back then.. but so was .NET Framework in general. Then they rebuilt from the ground up with dotnet core and it's been rock solid since
Or they just hate Microsoft, which is a common motif to shit on anything Microsoft does regardless of the actual product.
Memes like this make me ever more confused about my own software work flow. I'm in engineering so you can already guess my coding classes were pretty surface level at least at my uni and CC
Conda is what I like to use for data science but I still barely understand how to maintain a package manager. Im lowkey a bot when it comes to using non-GUI programs and tbh that paradigm shift has been hard after 18 years of no CLI usage.
The memes are pretty educational though
Try not to learn too much from memes, they're mostly wrong. Conda is good, if you're looking for something more modern (for Python) I'd suggest Poetry
Never have heard of Poetry, but I'll check it out tonight! I pretty much exclusively coded in Python and Julia up until I got out of uni. I learned after a couple of months of insanity swapping kernels, init systems, distributions and learning everything about file systems only leads to further insanity and productivity hindrance.
Something something recommending someone who doesn't know what a shell is to use emacs and make a Lua/Neovim config. Thanks for the tip!
This is why I use poetry for python nowadays. Pip just feels like something ancient next to Cargo, Stack, Julia, npm, etc.
Stack?
Used for Haskell development: https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/
What about CPAN?
You can't even use it without the documentation of the program that you want to install because some dependencies have to be installed manually, and even then there's a chance of the installation not working because a unit test would fail.
i will get hated for this but: cargo > composer > pip > npm
maven not on the list because they aren't even playing the same sport.
the only time i've had issues with pip is when using it to install the xonsh shell, but that's not really pip's fault since that's a very niche case and i wouldn't expect any language's package manager to handle installing something so fundamental anyways.
It's all fun and games until the wheel variant you need for your hardware acceleration package conflicts with that esoteric math library you planned on using.
Bruh idk why the difference... Educate me?
cargo just works, it's great and everyone loves it.
npm has a lot of issues but in general does the job. When docs say do 'npm install X' you do it and it works.
pip is a mess. In my experience doing 'pip install X' will maybe install something but it will not work because some dependencies will be screwed up. Using it to distribute software is pointless.
Getting into rust is still on my to-do list, otherwise I've no major problem with pip or npm. They both have their flaws, but both work well enough to do what I need them for. If I had to prefer one it would be pip simply to sustain my passionate hate for all things JavaScript.
No one here has yet complained about Cocoapods and Carthage? I'm traumatized. Thank God for SwiftPM
npm bad, pnpm good.
What's the difference? I'm currently doing my web developement 2 course where we started using react so I'm typing npm to terminal all the time :D
Check out https://pnpm.io
Bun best
I really dislike pnpm, if everyrhing you do is install and build then if doesnt matter what you use, if you do anything complex pnpm will come back to bite you. Yarn is a good middle ground
You literally didn't gave any arguments why you really dislike pnpm. The most obvious benefit is several times faster installations. It also have resolved some peer dependencies (I don't remember details).
Pip has a good looking loading thingy though.
NuGet (for C# / .NET) is far better than npm.
And it has a cool name
Fuck pip
all my homies use pdm
Bottom should be Composer.
Whats the problem with composer?
I'm asking out of ignorance. I rarely use it, even as a php dev. It just works compared to how much monkeying around I do with npm.
So noone mentioned how awesome vcpkg is yet?
this is more abt programming languages than packages managers
Which allows me to bash python endlessly >.>
