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The ideal scenario would be NPM existing as a foundation rather than a for-profit company. The more likely one is them folding and Facebook taking over as the source of truth for JS packages, which is bad for everyone.


Agreed.

Any kind of fork/split led by a company like Facebook would be highly controversial and come with lot's of drama.

This would inevitably spark a non-profit community driven alternative and cause chaos.

All outcomes would be very damaging to the JS ecosystem though.

(also, I don't see FB having any interest in running the Javascript package registry. Yarn and it's proxy are really just a result of limitations and slowness of the official implementations)


It would be darkly hilarious if NPM gets bought out by a state actor, although Facebook would be nearly as bad.


Doubly hilarious if that state actor wasn't the US or one of its close allies.




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