GitHub Completes Its Acquisition Of The NPM JavaScript/Node.js Package Manager

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GitHub Completes Its Acquisition Of The NPM JavaScript/Node.js Package Manager

Following the surprise announcement last month that Microsoft's GitHub would be acquiring NPM Inc, the company behind the popular JavaScript package manager, that acquisition is now complete...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GitHub-NPM-Acquisition-Complete

[JoshuaAshton]

Hopefully they bought it so they could nuke it off the face of the Earth.

[AH88]

Hopefully they bought it so they could nuke it off the face of the Earth.

Node.js is great. It keeps all the hype-train brainlets away from serious projects.

[cynic]

Node.js is great. It keeps all the hype-train brainlets away from serious projects.

unfortuately not. They infest all my servers with their unmaintainable js spaghetti hacks

[Mario Junior]

Npm, nodejs, Javascript 🤢🤮

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

I found the grave, it reads:

R.I.P. freedom
14 March 1994 - 15 Apr 2020
It will not be right back.
Death by m$ takeover
There is no WE in micro$oft

[andyprough]

Hopefully they bought it so they could nuke it off the face of the Earth.

Well it is MS. Throwing billions at shiny toys and then completely losing interest in them is what they do best.

[uid313]

It's too bad the Node.js version that ships with Ubuntu 20.04 is old. Also the Node.js, npm and node-gyp depends on Python 2 instead of Python 3. 😢

It's too bad that GitHub doesn't officially support GitHub for Desktop on Linux.

Npm, nodejs, Javascript 🤢🤮

If you don't like NPM there is Yarn, and if you don't like JavaScript there is TypeScript. But yeah, JavaScript sure have it wonks and wrinkles.

[jaskij]

Competition, competition. GitLab has been offering tightly integrated NPM registry for quite some time.

[royce]

Competition, competition. GitLab has been offering tightly integrated NPM registry for quite some time.

GitHub have been lagging behind Gitlab on CI/CD. Gitlab is also amazing if you're deploying your apps into kubernetes for instance.