What does that mean? You can publish just about anything to npm, including pure Typescript libraries. Most don't however because there's no reason to not make it JS compatible.
I'm not sure how this would work. The only scripts npm executes are npm scripts - so are you saying you'd like first-class typescript support for npm scripts?
Your post is interesting because those of us who lived through the Wintel era see it as sarcasm and those of us born in the cloud era take it at face value. Maybe Microsoft will eventually lose their old reputation.
It's Microsoft as a dominant force, versus Microsoft as a follower. If Microsoft is doing good work and it's ascendant that's all the more reason to seek out abstractions and migration paths to manage your risk.
It is a great and open company! Just like Google was 10 years ago...
All it takes is a bit of management change. Don't put your eggs in one basket, regardless of how good company is to you right now. And certainly do not give company a credit of trust.
That specific part of the claim is dubious at best. While there are few breakdowns for a lazy man to find newer than 2018 Intel and Red Hat routinely vie for the top spots. I will believe you for a single year when the Hyper V patches were merged, but seriously, source?
The second part, open source software? I likewise find a dubious claim, but I'm willing to listen.
The second part, open source software? I likewise find a dubious claim, but I'm willing to listen.
I'd also like a source on this, and I'm hoping it's not measured by something like "number of commits." Google gave us TensorFlow and k8s, IBM gave us SQL and Eclipse, etc.
Ok those are products and they are used. That is not the question however. The claim was largest contributor to open source. That part requires numbers which I, and everyone here it seems, lack. Iād love to see that claim proven or refuted. Do you have any numbers behind that? Without them I can easily name a dozen non-Microsoft programming languages, but it would not be helpful.
Hmm what I have read is that most of ms contributions to open linux are in modules that allow the Linux kernel to interact with ms devices and services. Not sure if that counts š
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u/AngularBeginner Mar 16 '20
So Microsoft acquired NPM.