NPM Is Joining GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by clarkbw » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:08 PM UTC

dubcanada wrote: post #5

Wait, so is it joining Microsoft? Or is it under Github, which is under Microsoft? I don't fully understand the way it's governed from this article.

Part of GitHub (I work at GitHub and lead the Packages team)

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by austincheney » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:09 PM UTC

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

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by duxup » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:09 PM UTC

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

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by K0nserv » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:09 PM UTC

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.

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by lucideer » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

batmansmk wrote: post #7

VsCode, Typescript, Github, NPM. And Microsoft doesn't even have to maintain the main runtime, Google does. What a clever strategy!

In fairness to Microsoft, they did at least spend a little bit of time considering / working toward maintaining the runtime part, before deciding otherwise https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore/issues/628#issueco...

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by reilly3000 » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

Brendinooo wrote: post #6

I occasionally forget that Microsoft bought GitHub. They certainly don't do anything here to remind me of that fact. How separate from MS has GitHub been in day-to-day operations?

I can't speak to company internals, but I do know that Azure is powering GitHub Actions runners, and there have been a firehose of new features coming out of GitHub in the past year. I imagine its pretty core to their "Developers Developers Developers" strategy.

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by KaoruAoiShiho » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

There's plenty of alternatives already so I don't see MS being able to do anything untowards. /shrugs, I'll panic only if something bad happens.

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by kdaigle » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

sandov wrote: post #2

"Github acquires npm" would be a better title IMO.

Today we've announced that we've signed an agreement to acquire NPM but we technically have not acquired them yet (referred to as "closed"). NPM is still their own company for now and that's why the language is future tense.

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by spacephysics » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...

Whelp, time to look for backup solutions for when Microsoft continues their strategy.

Even today there’s an article about github flagging (re shadow banning) a user with 10k+ lib users, and no response from them as to why the ban occurred.

Thinking of adding an “in case of emergency” link in my README for users in case of sudden service loss.

Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub

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Post by applecrazy » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:11 PM UTC

zozbot234 wrote: post #8

It's on there already. https://github.com/npm/ and https://github.com/npm/cli

No, NPM the company is being acquired by Github.