No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

Why do so many programming languages have their own package manager?

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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

Lots of programming languages have their own package manager, separate from the distribution or OS package manager.

Going loosely from the TIOBE index:

Python has Pip
C# has NuGet
Javascript has npm for Node.js
Visual Basic also uses NuGet
R has a repository of packages that can be installed by running install.packages("something") in R
Rust has Cargo/Crates
Go has the go get command
Swift has its own package manager swift package
Ruby has RubyGems
Java has Maven and Gradle (not sure if they are full package managers, or build automation tools with dependency resolution)
PHP has Composer for managing libraries and dependencies
C and C++ are the only exceptions I can think of, off the top of my head; libraries are managed by, and coupled to, the operating system

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Because it’s one central repository regardless of distribution or even OS.
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  And also having to check OS compatibility for every package you want to use.

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