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It'd be good if there were a canonical "Why npm sucks" article, like the "fractal of bad design" one for PHP. This one seems like a fairly reasonable candidate
by bshimmin 12y ago
It'd be good if there were a canonical "Why npm sucks" article, like the "fractal of bad design" one for PHP.
This one seems like a fairly reasonable candidate: http://www.jongleberry.com/why-i-hate-npm.html http://www.jongleberry.com/why-i-hate-npm.html (though the "nested dependencies" bit needs much more swearing, and I disagree with the last paragraph suggesting things in Ruby and Python land are just as bad).
- evanriley 12y agoIn the last paragraph there, is he saying that Golang is 'bad' because it doesn't have a package manager? Does it need one? I always assumed 'go get' was enough. Honestly curious here.
- stephenr 12y agoSo you want a list of out of date and idiotic problems interspersed with a few actual issues?
- codereflection 12y agoI hadn't seen that post before. I agree with most of it. Nested dependencies is my main complaint about NPM.