An Empirical Study on Downstream Dependency Package Groups in Software Packaging Ecosystems

Table 2

Packaging ecosystems with different growth patterns.

Type	Steady growth	Fluctuating growth	No growth
Package manager	PyPI, RubyGems	npm, Go,	CPAN
		Maven, Packagist,
		NuGet, CocoaPods,
		Cargo, Bower, Pub
Language	Python, ruby	JavaScript, Go,	Perl
		Java, PHP,
		.NET, Objective-C,
		Rust, Javascript, Dart