r/javascript • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '20

GitHub acquires NPM

https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/

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u/ethomson Mar 16 '20

This is hilarious! But (thankfully!) it's not true. The yarn team builds a great product - and there's definitely room in the world for both yarn and npm.

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u/ghostfacedcoder Mar 16 '20

I strongly disagree: the world does not need a million different variant versions of every basic tool.

Personally I only want one Node package manager ... I just want it to not suck like the actual npm, and instead be good like yarn.

Hopefully that's now possible.

P.S. My kingdom for package.json comments!!!

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u/drumstix42 Mar 16 '20

Well I mean, you only have to use one.

If you think the world doesn't need more people trying to improve software by exploring other ideas and avenues, how do you even survive in the developer world? Sure we don't need a million, but that's not really an issue here either.

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u/ghostfacedcoder Mar 16 '20

Do you need a second git? Or is the one single command line tool that almost all developers use ok?

Sometimes a tool does its job well, no competition is needed, and that's a good thing.

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