Sorry Python but it is what it is.
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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 a pretty good tool, but it’ll happily fill up your disk with cached copies of crates that you downloaded somewhere in your user folder. Using a modern fs like BTRFS with extent deduplication helps to save space, but it doesn’t solve the problems.
pip and npm are practically equally bad, at least the maintained versions. If you’re using old versions that haven’t been supported for years (Python 2 etc.) then you’re in for a world of pain with both.
There are much worse alternatives. Anaconda, for example, takes half an hour to resolve dependencies while also autoloading itself into your shell, adding up to half a second (I timed this! I thought zsh was bugged!) of latency between shell prompts.
The worst tool is probably what many C(++) projects seem to do: use Git as a dependency manager by including entire git repos as submodules. I’m pretty annoyed at having to keep multiple versions of tokio around when building a Rust project, but at least I’m not downloading the entire commit history for boost every time I clone a project!
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
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In my experience npm is not great but it does work most of the time. I just tried installing bunch of stuff using pip and NONE of them worked. Python is backwards compatibility hell. Python 2 vs 3, dependencies missing, important libraries being forked and not working anymore. If the official installation instructions are ‘pip install X’ and it doesn’t work then what’s the point?
npm has A LOT of issues but generally when I do ‘npm i’ i installs things and they work.
But the main point is that cargo is just amazing :)
P.S. Never used ruby.
That’s not a controversial opinion. I’d say it’s worse than pip. At least pip doesn’t put nag messages on the console or fill up your hard drive with half a gigabyte of small files. OP is confused.
npm is so good there are at least 3 alternatives and every package instructs on using a different one.
