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Big leap from "servers cost money" to "a package manager requires a commercial entity". How are other language ecosystems and package managers operating, many w
by ivanbakel 7y ago
Big leap from "servers cost money" to "a package manager requires a commercial entity". How are other language ecosystems and package managers operating, many without private companies attached, when they too are serving millions of requests a day?
- yawaramin 7y agoWell the big ones are hosted by commercial enterprises, and the smaller ones don't have the scale of JavaScript so they don't require that level of support.
- fastball 7y agoWhich package manager has the scale of JS and isn't hosted by a commercial entity?
- shakna 7y agoapt, pacman, pip, and others. You can have large scale systems that aren't dependent on a commercial entity.
- fastball 7y agoI mean, the scale of pacman is miniscule compared to NPM. PyPI is hosted by AWS and Google. Not sure how APT works in the linux community can really work for anyone else, but definitely worth a shot for sure.