Composer Competitors

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is the global home for open source software, powering some of the world’s most ubiquitous software projects including Apache Airflow, Apache Camel, Apache Cassandra, Apache Groovy, Apache HTTP Server, and Apache Kafka. Established in 1999, The ASF is at the forefront of open source innovation, setting industry standards to advance software for the public good. We sustain open source projects in perpetuity, empowering developers to build communities that endure. Everything we do is open. Everyone is welcome. Learn more at https://apache.org. ASF’s annual Community Over Code event is where open source technologists convene to share best practices and use cases, forge critical relationships, and learn about advancements in their field. https://communityovercode.org/

CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is an archive of software written in Perl containing over 134,000 modules in over 29,700 distributions, as well as documentation for it. It has a presence on the World Wide Web at www.cpan.org and is mirrored world The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) currently has 193,834 Perl modules in 35,833 distributions, written by 13,292 authors, mirrored on 253 servers.

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