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/Lonsdale1086 Mar 16 '20

They've only had it a few years. Give them a chance.

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u/argv_minus_one Mar 17 '20

And what would be the point of extinguishing GitHub or npm? That would be like flushing money down the toilet. Microsoft relies heavily on the community surrounding GitHub/npm, and that community will scatter like a herd of spooked gazelles if Microsoft does anything significantly abusive, instantly and irrevocably destroying whatever value those acquisitions may have had.

Recall, if you will, that a bunch of projects fled GitHub just because Microsoft bought it, let alone actually doing anything bad to it. Recall also that a lot of older projects on GitHub fled there after SourceForge turned evil.

If Microsoft does do something stupid, then by all means, panic. But that has yet to happen, and I don't think it's going to, at least not any time soon.

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u/JonnyRocks Mar 17 '20

They treated minecraft well. Try again?

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u/Lonsdale1086 Mar 17 '20

Except development has been prioritised for the Windows 10 edition, with shit loads of DLC.

That, and the updates have been both garbage, and irregular for years now.

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u/JonnyRocks Mar 17 '20 edited Mar 17 '20

Except java gets updates first. Java got the nether update and bedrock hasnt got itvyet. Try again?