> So? Doesn't mean he is right, who knows what have happened with NPM? Maybe NodeJS would never have taken off in the first place. Brendan Eich also apparently doesn't like gay people, does that mean every JS developer needs to think like him?
He is absolutely right, NPM was a grift all along. The whole "unix philosophy" argument to justify a paper thin std lib was a farce. NPM architecture is terrible to begin with. NPM is designed the way it is(was, fetch X times the same package instead of linear dependencies) because NPM corp targeted growth as a startup, not eco-system stability.
Again, agree that architectural/technically speaking, NPM and it's registry is horrible.
But that NPM was a grift, std lib was a farce and everything designed to fuel growth of NPM Inc is gonna need to have some more evidence behind it than you feelings.
And please, I really wish you do have proof of this as I'd like it very much if NPM Inc got put into their place. But I find it unlikely they designed things for this purpose. In the end (at least for me), the quest for truth is more important than what I think is right.
He is absolutely right, NPM was a grift all along. The whole "unix philosophy" argument to justify a paper thin std lib was a farce. NPM architecture is terrible to begin with. NPM is designed the way it is(was, fetch X times the same package instead of linear dependencies) because NPM corp targeted growth as a startup, not eco-system stability.