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What would be an example of a good packaging ecosystem?

• nonbirithm 7y ago
  Probably cargo. - It was built in to Rust from the beginning and officially sanctioned so fifteen different people don't have to build their own incomplete, buggy package managers. - You can add plugins for things like automatically updating or adding dependencies. - It handles projects and subprojects. - All you have to do to install dependencies and run a project is "cargo run", reducing friction for getting into new projects. - For the most part, it just works. That said it isn't perfect, especially when needing custom build scripts, but it's good.