[lucaspiller]

I assume they modelled it after Homebrew, which has been working fine doing exactly that for the last 7 years.

That only has 3,000 packages vs 15,000 for CocoaPods or 115,000 for RubyGems.

[philippnagel]

In case somebody is interested in such figures (I certainly am) - NPM has 249,838 as of today [0].

[0]: https://www.npmjs.com