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I think you’re underselling it. You’ve listed several projects with many thousand man hours in development.

It’s telling that in Python there have been multiple package managers over the years to fix the broken status quo. Typescript/Javascript notwithstanding, in other languages and environments you get the one tool that’s been there for over a decade without competitors.

Very few languages have suffered from the same package manager issues as JS/TS and Python.

Wouldn't yarn, grunt and gulp fall into this category?

Typescript/Javascript notwithstanding

Also, gulp / grunt weren't package managers.

Very few languages have also suffered their popularity

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