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It wasn’t the first package manager for a programming language and plenty of us pointed out the folly of packages that small. Npm (and JS in general) is a vict
by dontlaugh 1y ago
It wasn’t the first package manager for a programming language and plenty of us pointed out the folly of packages that small.
Npm (and JS in general) is a victim of fashion, primarily.
- jmillikin 1y agoI think that statement is parsed as "npm was the first incredibly accessible package manager for [server-side JavaScript, which at the time was] an emergent popular technology,"
- dontlaugh 1y agoI get that, but there was plenty of prior art to learn from anyway.
- junon 1y agoThat isn't what I was claiming. I was drawing attention to it being super early on in an ecosystem, in an industry where lots of the "package manager best practices" are now formed based on Node's small-package qualms.