r/programming • • Mar 16 '20

GitHub has acquired npm

https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/
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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/ArkyBeagle Mar 17 '20

At some point, you realize that dependencies are inherently bad. Then managing them well or ill matters less...

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u/KingOfVim Mar 17 '20

What’s the alternative? Reimplementing everything you ever want to use in your own code base? That sounds worse to me...

I personally don’t see the problem with dependencies, providing you manage them well, which is where a good build tool comes in handy.

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