Rust's Cargo is incredibly well thought-out and will make you despise everything...

vonseel · on June 8, 2019

From the little development I have done in Rust, I have to agree.

On the other hand, I’ve been working with react-Native and typescript recently, and it’s a constant mess. Every invocation of yarn leaves at least a couple of warning messages about things that are out of my control. Installing packages is slow and at least every few days I have to wipe out node_modules and nuke any iOS build folders in order to get it working again. That said, RN is promising technology and hopefully my frustrations are due to more inexperience than the tools or language and ecosystem. I just wish all of the JavaScript stuff were faster. I’m on a gigabit connection and fast hardware but still it seems sometimes yarn has to download or unpack 6500 files or something

jitl · on June 8, 2019

NPM claims to have taken the lead from Yarn in terms of install speed in the latest versions. Still, I prefer Yarn because NPM has such a history of suckage.

Meanwhile, the former CTO of NPM released a new (alpha) package management system last week at JSConfEU (the conference where NodeJS was first announced); see https://github.com/entropic-dev/entropic/blob/master/docs/RE...

vonseel · on June 9, 2019

I saw those claims in the past few days and have tried both, for me yarn still seems faster although I didn't actually time them.

boris · on June 8, 2019

We are making a Cargo-like build toolchain for C/C++, if anyone is interested: https://build2.org

Ericson2314 · on June 8, 2019

Nope. Absolutely not. Cargo makes the simple things easy but is less thought out than Rust itself.