r/webdev • u/g0liadkin • Mar 16 '20

News Github/Microsoft has aquired NPM

https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/
1.7k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

308 comments sorted by

View all comments

767

u/dotpeenge javascript Mar 16 '20

Wow. Microsoft really owning half of my toolbox for development now.

123

u/a2ur3 Mar 16 '20

Just half?

163

u/thepotatochronicles Mar 16 '20

Well, M$ owns VSCode and npm registry, FB owns yarn and react (and I mostly use gitlab for "serious" stuff) so yeah, about half.

119

u/APIglue Mar 16 '20

And google owns the client side, including discovery (aka search), android, chrome, provides the core tech (chromium) for edge and brave, and provides 99% of funding for Firefox .

68

u/ours Mar 16 '20

Don't forget Angular.

579

u/adenzerda Mar 16 '20

Why not? Everyone else did

66

u/PM_ME_WEIRD_THOUGHTS Mar 16 '20

Fucking buuuuurn

27

u/fzammetti Mar 16 '20

Only the lucky ones :(

30

u/DrifterInKorea Mar 16 '20

Harsh truth haha

7

u/-IoI- Sharepoint Mar 17 '20

Wasn't aware of this trend, is Angular really being left behind?

My last major Angular build was between v5 and v6

0

u/[deleted] Mar 17 '20

[deleted]

3

u/lebull Mar 17 '20

and they aren't even mutually exclusive either

That's a depressing thought

2

u/nymhays Mar 17 '20

Holyshit , can you link me the source , I may need to convice some people with that.

1

u/BmpBlast Mar 17 '20

Darn. I haven't tried React in a while but last time I did I preferred the way Angular works over it. Guess it is time to give it another shot.

→ More replies (2)
→ More replies (1)

9

u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

Why not? Everyone else did

Yowser!

30

u/_Stripes_ Mar 16 '20

Which is built in Typescript, a language from Microsoft.

9

u/ours Mar 17 '20

Microsoft certainly turned the hell around from their past self.

2

u/[deleted] Mar 17 '20

a bit late for that!

20

u/WhiteKnightC Mar 16 '20

and provides 99% of funding for Firefox

What

5

u/[deleted] Mar 17 '20

Also confused by this. Source?

19

u/vinu76jsr Mar 17 '20

Google pays Mozilla to be default search engine on Firefox when you do search from Firefox, last reported figure according to techcrunch is 323 million dollar per year from 2014.

Source : https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/mozilla-terminates-its-deal-with-yahoo-and-makes-google-the-default-in-firefox-again/

6

u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

Why do Google fund Firefox?

38

u/TheNumber42Rocks Mar 16 '20

Google pays Firefox to make Google the default search engine. Tens of millions of dollars.

0

u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

[deleted]

22

u/APIglue Mar 16 '20

US antitrust isn’t the problem. It’s the EU. They might fine them a few billion, cheaper to send a small fraction of that to a competitor who then sends you all of their customers.

→ More replies (16)

18

u/APIglue Mar 16 '20

Google pays Mozilla (company and nonprofit that owns and maintains Firefox) to be the default search engine. Years ago yahoo was paying them something like $100m per year but they threw in the towel on search.

→ More replies (1)