NPM Is Joining GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by tln » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

CivBase wrote: post #31

duxup wrote: post #13

I understand some folks trepidation but where was npm going anyway?

Am I weird for thinking it didn't need to go anywhere?

Maybe it needed to go somewhere to pay bills, or provide upside to the options holders.

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by swyx » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

austincheney wrote: post #12

Is this a too big to fail kind of charity acquisition?

i think so. the words "put npm out of its misery" come to mind.

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by cortesoft » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

nathcd wrote: post #44

Sometimes I wonder what the business world (and the internet) would be like if mergers and acquisitions weren't allowed. Like, if businesses had to be sustainable or they'd just die, rather than capturing a whole market while eating VC money, maybe we'd all be better off? All of the really embarrassing stuff coming out of SV would just go away? Just Pinboards and Sourcehuts and Mastodons ruling the web? I'm capitalis…

What would happen to all the tech, equipment, and employees after the company goes out of business? We have to burn it?

If we did that, it would be a crazy waste of resources. The alternative is to let another company buy the stuff... and if a company buys the failed company's tech, equipment, and hires their staff... that is basically the same as buying the company.

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by ezekg » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:30 PM UTC

Sorry, but npm burned me too many times. It is (was?) the worst package manager I've ever used. Not a fan of npm the company either. I'm sticking with yarn.

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by cjamesd » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:30 PM UTC

Most important question: Will you still be able to see user-submitted phrases explaining the npm acronym? (See upper left-hand corner of https://www.npmjs.com/)

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by mythz » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:30 PM UTC

Just like GitHub this is a cloud play to make Azure more appealing by meeting developers where they're at, increase dev mindshare/reach, hosting their packages, CI Scripts/Actions then making it seamless to deploy to Azure.

Smart, have no idea where AWS or GCP's control team are at when these strategic plays are going down.

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by swyx » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:30 PM UTC

CivBase wrote: post #31

duxup wrote: post #13

I understand some folks trepidation but where was npm going anyway?

Am I weird for thinking it didn't need to go anywhere?

it was default going out of business so yes this saved it from death

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC

K0nserv wrote: post #14

This seems like a good outcome overall. NPM being such an important pillar in the software supply chain while having an unviable business model and largely being funded by VC money was never a good position to be in. There are problems with more of the software ecosystem consolidating with a single entity but it still feels like an improvement.

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Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by tenderlove » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

sytse wrote: post #25

Thanks to Microsoft/GitHub for this acquisition. NPM is essential to the Javascript eco-system and it is hard to have a business model for just a registry. In the ruby eco-system the awesome Ruby Together https://rubytogether.org/ was started to run the registry. In this case one of the worlds most valuable companies will run it, which means it doesn't need a not-for-profit. Regarding "trace a change from a GitHub pu…

Just to clarify, RubyCentral http://rubycentral.org is running the RubyGems registry.

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by pavlov » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

Heh, I called this 10 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19838122

Somebody replied "Microsoft won't acquire npm for sure."