13 ms·
For the betterment of the npm ecosystem the company should step in and depreciate all these simple packages. Or take over the responsibility over them for secur
by whollacsek 6y ago
For the betterment of the npm ecosystem the company should step in and depreciate all these simple packages. Or take over the responsibility over them for security reasons.
- KaiserPro 6y agoThe problem is that there no real stdlib. Sure someone _could_ make a stdlib in npm, but it'd change everyweek.
- andrew_ 6y agoA stdlib wouldn't solve the problem for older environments because a stdlib would almost certainly be tied to engine versions.
- wongarsu 6y agoWhich company? Npm Inc? Github? Microsoft? Google? Mozilla? Each of those would cause an outroar, and it would be near-universally agreed that having a decentralized ecosystem is better than being beholden to the whims of $company. (it doesn't help that 3/5 of the companies I mentioned are Microsoft, famous for embrace-extend-extuinish)