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Top 23 Rust package-manager Projects
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Project mention: A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-18
Rye is softly being sunset in favor of `uv` (though still officially supported). As it says on https://rye.astral.sh/,
> If you're getting started with Rye, consider uv, the successor project from the same maintainers.
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Project mention: Malware found on NPM infecting local package with reverse shell | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-26
See https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/13897 and https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/13897#issuecomment... .
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Project mention: Stop Installing Node.js This way! Unlock Better Development Workflow. | dev.to | 2025-04-20
Volta: Which is a newer, fast option that works across macOS, Linux, and Windows. Volta can intelligently manage Node versions (and other tools like Yarn) based on your project's package.json, ensuring seamless switching as you move between projects. (Volta.sh)
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Ok to proceed? [y/n]: y • Checking for pkgx… ✓ • pkgx is not installed x User action required: Install pkgx ────────────────────────────────── You need to install pkgx. Source this script again afterwards. pkgx can be installed in various ways, depending on your preferences: • Via Homebrew: $ brew install pkgxdev/made/pkgx • Via cURL: $ curl -Ssf https://pkgx.sh | sh For other ways to install see: https://docs.pkgx.sh/run-anywhere/terminals pkgx is the package manager that handles system dependencies, and it is not currently installed. The installation is simple, and via Homebrew does not require sudo or other forms of elevated permissions. Read more about pkgx on https://pkgx.sh Source this script again after pkgx has been installed.
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Project mention: Aurora: Maintenance-free, reliable and fast OS, stable like a Chromebook | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-30
> none of the docs really mention this
Searching for the sister distro you mentioned, this[1] was one of the first links I stumbled upon, which included a link to the ARM ISO[2] and checksum[3] along with this note:
> No homebrew, they don’t have arm builds, we will include Pixi[4] instead, which is a nice package manager built on the popular conda ecosystem - there’s some good stuff in there!
[1] https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bluefin-lts-alpha-f...
[2] https://download.projectbluefin.io/bluefin-lts-arm64.iso
[3] https://download.projectbluefin.io/bluefin-lts-arm64.iso-CHE...
[4] https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi
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Project mention: Flox 1.3: Simplified Service Management with Flox | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-03
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You can use topgrade (https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade) to update system, homebrew, npm, python, cargo with only one command. It also works on Linux and Windows.
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volt
An experimental package management tool for JavaScript. Upto 30x faster installation of dependencies using pre-flattened dependency trees. (by dimensionhq)
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I've opened [an issue](https://github.com/nvim-neorocks/lux/issues/550) in our repo. Feel free to ping us there :)
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cotton
A package manager for JavaScript projects. `cotton install` runs faster than `rm -rf node_modules`.
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soar
A fast, modern package manager for Static Binaries, Portable Formats (AppImage|AppBundle|FlatImage|Runimage) & More [maintainer=@QaidVoid] (by pkgforge)
Project mention: Show HN: Soar – Distro Agnostic Package Manager, HomeBrew (LinuxBrew) Done Right | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-24 -
Thanks for sharing this article!
[1]: https://github.com/helsing-ai/buffrs?tab=readme-ov-file
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High-quality dependency management using scarb
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
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Index
What are some of the best open-source package-manager projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | rye | 14,137 |
| 2 | Cargo | 13,416 |
| 3 | volta | 11,805 |
| 4 | pkgx | 9,334 |
| 5 | pixi | 4,309 |
| 6 | flox | 3,149 |
| 7 | habitat | 2,626 |
| 8 | topgrade | 2,371 |
| 9 | orogene | 1,491 |
| 10 | volt | 921 |
| 11 | dvm | 674 |
| 12 | lux | 573 |
| 13 | pacaptr | 383 |
| 14 | pacdef | 351 |
| 15 | cotton | 303 |
| 16 | soar | 276 |
| 17 | buffrs | 260 |
| 18 | novus | 212 |
| 19 | scarb | 206 |
| 20 | hok | 184 |
| 21 | shipp | 105 |
| 22 | mirro-rs | 98 |
| 23 | ny | 93 |
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