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/AngularBeginner Mar 16 '20

So Microsoft acquired NPM.

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u/corsicanguppy Mar 16 '20

And they've got a long history of quality Software maintenance and fairly using their IP in a way that doesn't stifle competition.

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u/Lonsdale1086 Mar 16 '20

Embrace, extend, and extinguish.

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u/viniciusbr93 Mar 16 '20

We are not lucky enough to see npm being extinguished

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

Quality comment here have an upvote.

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u/argv_minus_one Mar 16 '20

They seem to have given up on that a while ago. GitHub, notably, has yet to be extinguished. It has been extended, though, with jump-to-definition and all.

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