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		joeblau on Aug 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In many ways PHP is just now starting to come into... One of my main challenges with PHP is that it has no package manager with large community support. With npm and gem, and the community supporting them - developers get so much help in building robust products. Every developer that I've known for a few years and successfully switched from PHP to Node has said "Why didn't you tell Me about this before?!"

memla on Aug 24, 2013 | [–]

Composer/Packagist[1] is exactly like npm. It's even mentioned in the article.

[1]: https://packagist.org/

jtreminio on Aug 24, 2013 | [–]

This is exactly the problem with so many HNers - they have no idea what they're talking about.

5 years ago, you may have been right. Now? You are so wrong.

Before bashing something, you should make sure you're correct.

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