&gt; Yawn, another language-specific package manager.<p>People have been bemoaning language-specific package managers in favor of (Nix&#x2F;apt-get&#x2F;yum&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;MacPorts) for years now, and again and again developers keep flocking to them, despite the supposedly-superior alternatives being readily available. Rather than continuing to complain about this state of affairs, perhaps we should try to figure out why language package managers are so successful.