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by bpicolo 4596 days ago
No, it's popularity is because it was the simplest a long time ago, and it's supported on lots of virtual boxes by default.

Composer is terrible compared to NPM.
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dubcanada 4596 days ago
Says you :)

And so is PHP. You cannot argue that PHP is not simple, you just can't.

And frankly I like composer, sure it doesn't do C/C++ installation stuff, but PHP doesn't need that. What is does is almost identical to NPM, the only different is one looks different, and the names.

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debaserab2 4596 days ago
..and how do you think it got on all of those boxes? That's a chicken/egg argument.

Composer accomplishes the goals of being a "modern package manager that works on all platforms".

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