At least Java mostly coalesced around a single JSON library, even if it took 15 years. Maven (and by extension, Gradle) has been great as long as everything has stayed pretty much centralized. NPM has always been shit (LeftPad.js, anyone?), NuGet started off just as bad, PyPi is loaded with unmaintained garbage from before the Python 3 schism… Ironically, Composer might be the least terrible of the webshit repositories, just because 80% of PHP devs refused to learn how to use it during the webscale hype days.
At least Java mostly coalesced around a single JSON library, even if it took 15 years. Maven (and by extension, Gradle) has been great as long as everything has stayed pretty much centralized. NPM has always been shit (LeftPad.js, anyone?), NuGet started off just as bad, PyPi is loaded with unmaintained garbage from before the Python 3 schism… Ironically, Composer might be the least terrible of the webshit repositories, just because 80% of PHP devs refused to learn how to use it during the webscale hype days.
Don’t get me started on Ruby, though…
Composer my love. Laravel my love. Doesnt beat copying random dll into IIS to get TLS working tho. Real php hours