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The reasons language-specific package managers are popular: 1) "npm install" or "go get" or what have you, works on every platform (barring bugs), while "apt i
by yamtaddle 4y ago
The reasons language-specific package managers are popular:
1) "npm install" or "go get" or what have you, works on every platform (barring bugs), while "apt install" only works on some.
2) Most platform package managers aren't good at handling multiple versions of dependencies (which, neither are many language package managers, but they're easier to sandbox away with supplemental tools than system package managers are)
3) Most platform package managers lag way behind language-specific package managers, and may also lack tons and tons of packages that are available on those.
> Git is privately-owned
Git... hub, you mean?