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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software Highlight

posted on October 18, 2024 in: Quote.

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Package managers first appeared in the 1990s to support the Linux ecosystem, but eventually they became standard tooling for most programming languages. For example, the programming language Ruby has a package manager called RubyGems, while Python has PyPI.

— Nadia Eghbal

Replicated under Fair Use from Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal.