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Comment by mrweasel | Hacker News Reader

I would rather work with Pythons virtualenv and pip for dependency management, than I would PHPs Composer.

In terms of initial setup of an application than doesn't use anything but the standard library in either language I would completely agree with you.

Edit: Composer, not Artisan as dependency manager in PHP.

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Having worked with both I can say that composer feels way more modern than pip.

As in Laravel Artisan? That's not a dependency manager.

Granted, Composer is slow, but it works so well, mainly when package developers tag and release packages properly though. What issues do you have with it?

If you have XDebug enabled it will slow Composer, but also several patches near the official 1.0 release improved speed massively. If you haven't tried it recently, you should try Composer again.

Hit CTRL+C in the middle of composer install, and you will probably get an inconsistent state. Following composer commands will throw exceptions and exit. This is not a problem when it's pip.

Except some performance issues composer is GREAT though.

I install prestissimo[1] everywhere now. It improves speed so much.

"composer parallel install plugin" is what it calls itself - it downloads all the repositories before composer gets to the install step and then composer just loads everything from cache - super fast!

[1]: https://github.com/hirak/prestissimo

Wow, didn't know about that, thank you.

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