pnpm vs RubyGems: What are the differences?

What is pnpm? Fast, disk space efficient package manager. It uses hard links and symlinks to save one version of a module only ever once on a disk. When using npm or Yarn for example, if you have 100 projects using the same version of lodash, you will have 100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be saved in a single place on the disk and a hard link will put it into the node_modules where it should be installed.

What is RubyGems? Easily download, install, and use ruby software packages on your system. It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.

pnpm and RubyGems can be primarily classified as "Package Managers" tools.

Some of the features offered by pnpm are:

• Fast. As fast as npm and Yarn
• Efficient. One version of a package is saved only ever once on a disk
• Great for multi-package repositories (a.k.a. monorepos)

On the other hand, RubyGems provides the following key features:

• Package manager
• Instantly publish your gems
• Easily manage the installation of gems

pnpm is an open source tool with 8.34K GitHub stars and 224 GitHub forks. Here's a link to pnpm's open source repository on GitHub.