| ▲ | aniceperson 5 hours ago |
| didn't know npm was owned by github..
well, that explains things... |
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| ▲ | shagie 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| NPM Is Joining GitHub - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22594549 (March 16, 2020; 571 comments; 1829 points) - https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/npm-is-joinin... Some of it aged... interesting. Top comment: > Microsoft doesn’t do everything right but the GitHub acquisition has honestly gone better than I ever expected. Rather than forcing GitHub to adopt Microsoft centric policies, Microsoft has adopted more GitHub stuff, especially from a product POV. GitHub still runs as a separate company (different logins and health care and hiring systems) with its own policies and point of view. > ... |
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| ▲ | w29UiIm2Xz 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | To be fair, the vibes (at the time) were that Microsoft has changed. Probably, in some way, a zero-interest rate phenomena. | | |
| ▲ | ok_dad an hour ago | parent [-] | | Young people thought M$ was changing, the old folks knew it was just another cycle of embrace, extend, extinguish. |
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| ▲ | shimman 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | MSFT acquisition of NPM was a massive shit show, they fired many staff engineers and people that were at github for quite a while. Top comment was a liar. | | |
| ▲ | tomnipotent an hour ago | parent [-] | | > they fired many staff engineers Would you rather the company went under after it ran out of money and had to fire everyone instead? Not to mention a quarter of the company was laid off the year before the acquisition. | | |
| ▲ | shimman 10 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Uhh, I'd expect the trillion dollar transnational corporation to do right by it's workers rather than rat fucking them to appease corporate do-nothing leeches if I'm being frank. |
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| ▲ | ralph84 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| NPM (the company) was about to go under in 2020. They raised VC but never found a sustainable business model. GitHub acquired them to keep the ecosystem alive. The acquisition hasn't really benefitted GitHub much at all. |
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| ▲ | materielle 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don’t know if this is the case here, but it’s very hard in general to judge how much software projects ought to cost. Software projects will grow in complexity to consume whatever budget you give it. If you hire 50 devs and give them a bunch of business objectives, they are going to do what they do and write a ton of software. It’s not obvious to me that it would be theoretically impossible to build a cheaper package manager. | | |
| ▲ | monster_truck 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | And additionally was it truly worth buying if this is what we've ended up with? Some things should be allowed to fail |
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| ▲ | joeyhage 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Most people know this but the _real_ reason it explains things is that GitHub is owned by Microsoft. Oh, and Microsoft moved GitHub to Azure |
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| ▲ | BowBun 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| yes, since 2020 |
