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Comment by bhouston

4 days ago

Pnpm (a very popular npm replacement) makes completely locked packages easy and natural and ultra fast:

https://pnpm.io/cli/install

Benchmarks:

https://pnpm.io/benchmarks

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15155  4 days ago

pnpm is so laughably terrible compared to Cargo it's not even comparable in the same breath.

  • bhouston  4 days ago

    Why specifically? Your comment isn't very informative.

    Anyhow, here a Claude.ai comparison: https://claude.ai/share/72d2c34c-2c86-44c4-99ec-2a638f10e3f0

    • 15155  4 days ago

      Because it doesn't perform as advertised: wild amounts of inconsistencies in behavior (within and between versions), performance issues (pnpm exec adds 15s to all shebang'd execution time over npm/yarn/bun/etc.), etc. Version-to-version stability has been traditionally bad - it's half-baked software.

      Claude doesn't know this, of course, because it can only read superficial summaries posted on the internet and has zero real experience actually using this dumpster fire.