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I think this is right about Rust and Cargo, but I would say that Rust has a major advantage in that it implements frozen + offline mode really well (which if yo

I think this is right about Rust and Cargo, but I would say that Rust has a major advantage in that it implements frozen + offline mode really well (which if you use, obviously significantly decreases the risks). Any time I ever did the equivalent with NPM/node world it was basically unusable or completely impractical

bhouston 11mo ago
Pnpm (a very popular npm replacement) makes completely locked packages easy and natural and ultra fast: https://pnpm.io/cli/install https://pnpm.io/cli/install Benchmarks: https://pnpm.io/benchmarks https://pnpm.io/benchmarks
- 15155 11mo ago
  pnpm is so laughably terrible compared to Cargo it's not even comparable in the same breath.
  - bhouston 11mo ago
    Why specifically? Your comment isn't very informative. Anyhow, here a Claude.ai comparison: https://claude.ai/share/72d2c34c-2c86-44c4-99ec-2a638f10e3f0 https://claude.ai/share/72d2c34c-2c86-44c4-99ec-2a638f10e3f0
    - 15155 11mo ago
      Because it doesn't perform as advertised: wild amounts of inconsistencies in behavior (within and between versions), performance issues (pnpm exec adds 15s to all shebang'd execution time over npm/yarn/bun/etc.), etc. Version-to-version stability has been traditionally bad - it's half-baked software. Claude doesn't know this, of course, because it can only read superficial summaries posted on the internet and has zero real experience actually using this dumpster fire.