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This is an experimental wrapper over the pnpm CLI written in Rust

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This is an experimental wrapper over the pnpm CLI written in Rust

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johnnypangs·Aug 27, 2026

To be fair to the pnpm maintainers, they have been working on this well before the bun AI rewrite. The first commit in their rust experiment is in 2021. https://github.com/pnpm/pn/commits/main/?after=e24c0b293f1f4...

In Pnpm 12.0

solatic·Oct 23, 2023

We switched already to pnpm and won't look back. > Hardened Mode, constraints engine a) pin your dependencies, set save-prefix='' in .npmrc, use a tool like pnpm outdated, Renovate, Dependabot, npm-check-updates to keep them updated. Doesn't need to be done or enforced in the package manager, Git Hooks and CI are sufficient. b) use syncpack to ensure all your dependencies in different workspaces use the same versions. This doesn't need to be done in the package manager. pnpm also has pnpm licenses to help keep compliance happy. If someone wants to write a package manager in Rust for speed (pnpm is already moving in this direction, see https://github.com/pnpm/pn and https://github.com/pnpm/pacquet ), we'd take a look. Otherwise - not enough benefit to switching away.

In Yarn 4.0