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I’m guessing that the problem is the search engine? It would be interesting to compare the search/suggestion engines of CPAN/PyPI/rubygems/npm/CRAN, because th

I’m guessing that the problem is the search engine? It would be interesting to compare the search/suggestion engines of CPAN/PyPI/rubygems/npm/CRAN, because this can’t be a problem that has only been faced by npm.

tyingq 9y ago
Part of it is scale and growth rate. CPAN has around 36k packages but it's been around decades. NPM exceeded 350k a while ago. See http://www.modulecounts.com http://www.modulecounts.com
- TAForObvReasons 9y ago
  NPM used to have its own search, then one day in late 2016 decided to outsource it to https://npms.io/ https://npms.io/ . That may be directly related to the issue at hand
  - SenHeng 9y ago
    Using the search terms used in TFA, npms.io seems to return the expected results compared to whatever's used on npmjs.com. So I don't think we should blame them.