Pnpm 12.0

> It is a rewrite of pnpm in Rust

Their benchmarks[0] report that a clean install with lockfile is about 3x times faster (7s -> 2.2s) and a no-op install is about 29x times faster (517ms -> 18ms)

[0]: https://pnpm.io/benchmarks

Whenever you see a lot of long dashes (—) in a writing, there's a high chance Claude has written it.

Had to check the calendar to be sure it wasn’t somehow April 1st. No, it’s August. Huh.

I don’t see how it’s possible that the pnpm maintainers are unaware of the bun AI-rewrite-to-rust saga… so I’m baffled, befuddled, and overall at a loss to make sense of this decision.

I got to the conclusion that boring is good enough, for me NPM is the best tool, is not that fast, but the installation speed is not that bad, considering how many times I need to run from scratch, the difference does not matter, it is stable and it's the default Node package manager, so I don't need to bother to install in CI any other tool, etc. My experience for long living projects is to stick with the defaults, because in a few years third party tools will change, it happen to my team with Yarn classic, now that we are with vanilla Node and NPM no worries, same with 3rd party dependencies, just use as less as possible.

I'm curious, as it's not mentioned, are there any performance improvements as part of this rewrite?

Hooray!

Time to hop off I guess. They don't even bother to write changlog on their own.

I’m going to write a filter to remove comments that are just bitching about whether something is AI written or not. Seeing “slop” now starts to give me m$ vibes

Am I the only one that hates the decision to no longer support corepack?

Good to see the maintainers don't care enough to take the time to write a release blogpost themselves. sigh

The more I read these ass Claude Opus writings the more I believe AGI is further away from us.

just why pnpm? you are stable, you are loved by the community. Now you feel the need to throw it away to rewrite for what? Can anybody give me a good explaination