Actually, again as someone who has some real life experience with a number of different systems, including - pip for Python, - NPM, - Nuget - and Maven (and

Actually, again as someone who has some real life experience with a number of different systems, including - pip for Python, - NPM, - Nuget - and Maven (and Ant) Maven is by far my favorite, despite XML. In fact, give how small pom files are and how little you have to deal with them (if you know what you are doing) I find it amazing how many comments I have had to read about "XML-hell" etc.