A rant: "Every one of these package managers is designed for a reckless world in which programmers chuck packages wholesale into ~/.pip, set up virtualenvs and pin their dependencies to 10 versions and 6 vulnerabilities ago, [...]" #RStats is better here drewdevault.com/2021/11/16/P…

Nov 16, 2021 · 3:50 PM UTC

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Replying to @eddelbuettel
CRAN is better there. R still has a swarm of systems for package version management, installing from github/other repos, etc.
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Specially with the new #renv i really like it...
Replying to @eddelbuettel
Hope this guy never looks at Javascript ecosystem. Makes Python look downright sane.
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Hard disagree. R has many strengths compared to Python but package management is so decisively not one of them it isn’t even funny.
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