I’ve been trying to get luarocks to work on windows, and all it gives is cryptic gcc errors.

How does pip manage to work on most platforms without issues?

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
    21·
    13 hours ago

    I’m surprised to hear you say this because in all honesty, pip really sucks as far as package managers go. uv is a worthy replacement.

    • sus@programming.dev
      2·
      10 hours ago

      I think this is talking about basic functionality, eg. can you do basic stuff with a clean install without everything immediately breaking

      There’s a lot of programming tools that are primarily developed for and on linux, and “windows support” is an afterthought which will result in linux being a very frictionless experience but windows being a minefield of problems and requiring careful manual setup