Good points, background downloads would speed it up. And the language doesn’t have much to do with that. This project looks to be someone just toying around wi

Good points, background downloads would speed it up. And the language doesn’t have much to do with that. This project looks to be someone just toying around with Rust or their own PM. Props for that, but the headline has extra implications on HN. I recently rewrote a big portion of Atlas [1]. It’s a Nim based dependency manager that clones Nim packages to a `deps/` folder. Initially I was worried about using reference types, etc, for performance reasons. It’s a general habit of mine. Then I remembered that stuff would be negligible compared to the download times and git overhead. Well aside from the SAT solver. 1: https://github.com/nim-lang/atlas https://github.com/nim-lang/atlas