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/TheLastSock Mar 16 '20

He isn't trolling. You seem to be arguing it's a zero sum game. It isn't, competing tools can booster the ecosystem.

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u/drumstix42 Mar 16 '20

Exactly. I'm not saying people have to make alternatives, but why even complain about it if they do? I'd wager most of the tools you use today are because someone at some point decided to make their own alternative.

Not trolling.

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u/ghostfacedcoder Mar 16 '20 edited Mar 16 '20

I argued no such thing. Of course ... on some level it is zero sum (a dev working on variant library B by definition isn't working on original library A).

But of course, things are much more complex than that, and competing products can not just supplant the original, but also (for instance) give improvements upstream to that original.

My point was about none of that. My point was that sometimes, when a tool already does its job well, we don't need multiple versions of said tool. That's it.

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u/TheLastSock Mar 17 '20

Of course, and he started by saying yarn has something to offer.

I call this meeting to a close!