As a user of an application: `npm install` just works (same with `cargo build`). For Python, I’ll probably do `python -m venv env; . env/bin/activate` and then, well, it’s probably `pip install -r requirements.txt`, but sometimes it’ll be other things, and there are just too many options. I may well add --ignore-installed and use some packages installed locally of potentially different versions, e.g. for setting up Stable Diffusion recently (first time I’ve ever used the dGPU on my laptop) I wanted to use the Arch Linux packages for PyTorch and the likes.
For managing dependencies in an existing library or application (as distinct from starting from scratch, where you’ll have to make several extra choices in Python, and where npm is badly messed up for libraries), both npm and Python are generally fairly decent, but the whole you-can-only-have-one-version-of-a-library thing from Python lends itself more to insurmountable problems.
My personal background: many years of experience with both npm and Python, but I’ve never done all that much packaging in either. (Also many years of Rust, and I have done packaging there, and it’s so much easier than both.)
As a user of an application: `npm install` just works (same with `cargo build`). For Python, I’ll probably do `python -m venv env; . env/bin/activate` and then, well, it’s probably `pip install -r requirements.txt`, but sometimes it’ll be other things, and there are just too many options. I may well add --ignore-installed and use some packages installed locally of potentially different versions, e.g. for setting up Stable Diffusion recently (first time I’ve ever used the dGPU on my laptop) I wanted to use the Arch Linux packages for PyTorch and the likes.
For managing dependencies in an existing library or application (as distinct from starting from scratch, where you’ll have to make several extra choices in Python, and where npm is badly messed up for libraries), both npm and Python are generally fairly decent, but the whole you-can-only-have-one-version-of-a-library thing from Python lends itself more to insurmountable problems.
My personal background: many years of experience with both npm and Python, but I’ve never done all that much packaging in either. (Also many years of Rust, and I have done packaging there, and it’s so much easier than both.)