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

[pracedru]

MS is the Borg.
They consume everything.
resistance is futile.

[utopik]

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

Why all this hate about JavaScript and Node.JS ? Any developer or team should choose their tools following their needs and the level of productivity they want to achieve. Implementing an API with Node.js is undoubtly far more elegant, less bug prones, and far more productive than with C/C++. Want to run code in a browser ? You have no choice than using JavaScript. Need performance in some parts of you application ? Use WASM or a node native module.

Please be kind with all developers, we all have things to learn from each other.

[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.

[jaskij]

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

[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.

[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.

[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

[Mario Junior]

Npm, nodejs, Javascript 🤢🤮

[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

[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.