pip (and it's predecessor, easy_install) were improvements over CPAN, PEAR or the complete absence of solutions at the time in languages like Java or C, but I t

pip (and it's predecessor, easy_install) were improvements over CPAN, PEAR or the complete absence of solutions at the time in languages like Java or C, but I think it's fair to state that a package manager is table stakes for a language now and newer iterations on the concept like cargo have surpassed pip.