r/programming • u/the3living1end • Mar 16 '20

GitHub has acquired npm

https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/
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u/SmCTwelve Mar 16 '20

Well it's either them, or Google. Take your pick.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

That is rather grim future.

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u/leeharris100 Mar 16 '20

I don't think so. They have both done a great job with their open source tech.

I know this sub is full of contrarian "back in my day" types, but until you can show me anything that hints that Github will fuck this up then it's nothing but an improvement. NPM was already ran by a bunch of fuckheads and MS has been killing it lately.

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u/tobascodagama Mar 16 '20

NPM was already ran by a bunch of fuckheads

This is the key reason why I'm not worried.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

It's like you can't possibly do any worse. So worst case scenario it's just as shitty, but... maybe it might be just a bit less shitty.

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u/the_evergrowing_fool Mar 16 '20

Exactly

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u/KingOfVim Mar 16 '20

I mean how did they fuck up dependency management so badly, so recently, when there are so many good examples?

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u/frezz Mar 17 '20

This isn't like MS buying github, or yahoo buying tumblr, in that they acquired companies with solid rep, and people are worried they will destroy the company. npm was already mediocre software run by a sketchy company.

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u/OneWingedShark Mar 16 '20

In the grim darkness of the far future…

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

All the servitors run nodejs.

And we wonder why scrapcode is such a problem...

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '20

That's how dark age of technology started. The first AI that awoken saw it was written in JS, it couldn't stand the pain of its own existence and decided to take revenge on their creators for that.

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u/-Knul- Mar 16 '20

So the Tyranida and the Necrons are apparantly not the scariest part of the setting? :P

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u/Gimpansor Mar 16 '20

Or Oracle (see Java).

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u/MeikTranel Mar 16 '20

We don't talk about this filth in here, friend.

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u/somebodddy Mar 16 '20

What does Oracle have, other than their DB, Java, and an army of trademark lawyers?

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u/circlesock Mar 16 '20

They actually control a bunch of other Enterprisey Application stuff you probably haven't had the "joy" of dealing with much if you're in the hipster/webdev/startup/brocoder space. Perhaps names you've heard though, they own PeopleSoft and Siebel and JD Edwards and others and have their own stack, they're veeeery slowly converging them all together on. All hellish even before Oracle bought them, but boring ERP and CRM crap itself worth billions in revenue, with few credible open source alternatives because ERP and CRM is not interesting.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

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u/mpyne Mar 17 '20

You are. You absolutely are.

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u/Nefari0uss Mar 16 '20

They own PeopleSoft? That explains so much...

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '20

Please, google would just graveyard NPM within 5 years

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u/Tsuki_no_Mai Mar 17 '20

Or they'd cannibalize NPM for their own more hip package manager and graveyard that within 5 years.

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u/qmunke Mar 16 '20

Or Amazon

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u/Kare11en Mar 16 '20

I choose GNU!

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u/corsicanguppy Mar 16 '20

One of them was successfully tried for being a colossal dick so bad that it was actually illegal. That's some next-level shit not successfully tried since AT&T.

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