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what does pip do to not suck? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've been trying to get luarocks to work on windows, and all it gives is cryptic gcc errors.

How does pip manage to work on most platforms without issues?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm surprised to hear you say this because in all honesty, pip really sucks as far as package managers go. uv is a worthy replacement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think this is talking about basic functionality, eg. can you do basic stuff with a clean install without everything immediately breaking

There's a lot of programming tools that are primarily developed for and on linux, and "windows support" is an afterthought which will result in linux being a very frictionless experience but windows being a minefield of problems and requiring careful manual setup

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Compared to luarocks, pip is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe so, but pip is years behind package managers like cargo. It really is not particularly good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sure, and Luarocks is behind pip, and it really is particularly bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Today I learned about uv-package manager ; thanks!