Ask HN: Is there a reason every language comes with it's own package manager?

• Cargo

  264 12,015 10.0 Rust

  The Rust package manager

  

oh look at something like the rust package manager cargo https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/ there so much stuff in there specific to rust.

• CPython

  1,319 59,856 10.0 Python

  The Python programming language

  

>> Why could't PIP just be an apt-extension?

Because not eveyone uses an apt-based package manager.

Python runs on quite a few platforms:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/platform.py

Apt is not the package manager for most of those platforms. Thus an operating system package manager-based approach would not work for everyone.

That said, several operating systems do "vendor" pip packages so that apt or the equivalent operating system package manager can install a known good version of the package. This approach can introduce problems, but it also can prevent problems depending on the operating system and programming language.

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