Saw this on hackernews, there’s some good discussions there too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24193278
And as always the fucking spaghetti that is NPM: https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
TL;DR: NPM removed a package because of false trademark claim and broke fucking everything lol
Fortunately that npm incident was in 2016 and we’re still here. But effing Microsoft will probably bring corporate bullying into fray sooner than later.
NPM is basically owned by Microsoft now too which will make things like this worse.
Reminds me of nginx
Nginx is a massive project with thousands of stars on github
Yes, but it was created by one guy to solve a problem at work, and he maintained it solo for a while.
https://linuxiac.com/nginx-author-step-back-from-the-company/
i’m facing this dilemma right now. We require a library that hasn’t been updated in two years with a maintainer/developer that’s no where to be seen. But it’s really the only solution aside from building something from scratch or forking. This is for an enterprise level peice of software/spaghetti from a top 3 company in the industry…and super normal to see happen regularly.
CoreJS
Wondering if the comic was taking here about either Curl or WGet
