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mweberxyz on June 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time ...

Say what you want about the stability of the npm ecosystem, but if this were JS, a new SemVer patch release could be cut, and it would be fixed in thousands of code bases essentially instantly.

rovr138 on June 16, 2021 | [–]

and if they get pissed, they can also remove the package and break thousands of code bases essentially instantly.

AgentME on June 17, 2021 | | [–]

NPM hasn't allowed unpublishing packages for years.

mypalmike on June 17, 2021 | [–]

And then thousands of scripts that parse the old output would start to fail. :-)

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