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The irony of this comment is that Composer & packagist is one of the sanest and most well-thought-through package management systems. PHP actually fares better
by lucideer 4y ago
The irony of this comment is that Composer & packagist is one of the sanest and most well-thought-through package management systems. PHP actually fares better than the vast majority of language ecosystems on the specific topic being discussed in this comment thread.
- girvo 4y agoAlthough Composer was incredibly slow. No idea if that’s still true, but I believe it was partially a consequence of its approach to dependency constraints, which is what made it actually quite robust.
- amiga-workbench 4y agoComposer 2 isn't bad, I have had comical situations in the past where it got very confused and ended up gobbling 32GB of RAM before crashing, but that hasn't happened in a very long time.