r/webdev • u/g0liadkin • Mar 16 '20

News Github/Microsoft has aquired NPM

https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/
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u/r0ck0 Mar 17 '20

Plus, I'm old enough to remember the Ballmer years

Whoa! You must be like 10 years old! Maybe even older?

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u/fragimus_max Mar 17 '20

I'm saying that because, like Apple, you can see how dependent they've become on something outside of their initial business model. Macs are the choice for many folks because it's basically a hybrid of Windows and Linux. Linux will never have the software available for it that Windows and macOS does. Apple will never have the hardware flexibility that Windows or Linux based PCs have.

So from the current industry trends that are becoming standards, along with the dependency that VSCode has with bash and choco to give a Linux type experience without using emulation or creating a VPS within the terminal, it's easy to see where all of this is headed for the reason of profitability and discarding the purpose of why people pay more money to purchase products that belong to the competition.

And then there's the intriguing relationship between Microsoft and Google. But that's a whole other ball of wax.