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- just why pnpm? you are stable, you are loved by the community. Now you feel the need to throw it away to rewrite for what? Can anybody give me a good explainationby knlam
- They should focus on the tool, do not try to rewrite it… everyone tries to rewrite things to rust now, pnpm was already great alternative to npm - just keep improving it instead of rewriting:/by coder-pm
- Time to hop off I guess. They don't even bother to write changlog on their own.by xiaoyu2006
- Had to check the calendar to be sure it wasn’t somehow April 1st. No, it’s August. Huh.
I don’t see how it’s possible that the pnpm maintainers are unaware of the bun AI-rewrite-to-rust saga… so I’m baffled, befuddled, and overall at a loss to make sense of this decision.
by fwlr - I got to the conclusion that boring is good enough, for me NPM is the best tool, is not that fast, but the installation speed is not that bad, considering how many times I need to run from scratch, the difference does not matter, it is stable and it's the default Node package manager, so I don't need to bother to install in CI any other tool, etc. My experience for long living projects is to stick with the defaults, because in a few years third party tools will change, it happen to my team with Yarn classic, now that we are with vanilla Node and NPM no worries, same with 3rd party dependencies, just use as less as possible.by norman784
- I'm curious, as it's not mentioned, are there any performance improvements as part of this rewrite?by deanc
- Whenever you see a lot of long dashes (—) in a writing, there's a high chance Claude has written it.by 1matin
- > It is a rewrite of pnpm in Rust
Their benchmarks[0] report that a clean install with lockfile is about 3x times faster (7s -> 2.2s) and a no-op install is about 29x times faster (517ms -> 18ms)