"pip install ___" Everything else is pretty much obsolete. The problem is in how it doesn't really work reliably, especially with C extensions, which are much

"pip install ___" Everything else is pretty much obsolete. The problem is in how it doesn't really work reliably, especially with C extensions, which are much more common in Python-Land than with anything Javascript/NodeJS-related. You're also comparing with something that, by virtue of its age, has far less technical debt. Also, NPM is a "commercial product", PyPI is a community effort. Maybe the comparison to something like Anaconda would be more apt. The author acknowledges most problems anyway, he just comes to the wrong conclusion: It's not "good" now, it's still terrible, but everything else is more-or-less as bad or worse.