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Not sure what your other experience is, but most dynamic languages have simple package management platforms similar to npm. As you note, Java has Maven/Ant and
by cookiecaper 10y ago
Not sure what your other experience is, but most dynamic languages have simple package management platforms similar to npm. As you note, Java has Maven/Ant and C# has NuGet, both of which are substantially more "enterprisey".
It'd be interesting to hear a fair, modern comparison between npm, ruby-gems, LuaRocks, pip/PyPI/cheeseshop, and the other big ones I'm sure I'm forgetting.
The JavaScript community has had a lot of competitors on this front, particularly for frontend asset management, but it does finally seem to stabilizing a little bit. It took forever.
- rusk 10y agoA "Battle of the dependency managers" if you will .. sounds great! I mentioned NPM in particular in the context of this being a node.js discussion. I've seen a few comparable tools in my time but IMHO NPM may be one of the cleanest, considering this as a feature of node.js - it does add to its attractiveness as a development environment. Yeah it took the JS community ages to sort this out, but in NPM there seems to be an answer.