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Re:ESLint compromised, may have stolen your credentials by fao_ on Thursday July 12, 2018 @04:15PM (#17518236)
Everyone gives C's library distribution model shit, but at the end of the day installing through a distribution's repos is still much more secure than the alternatives.
Re:ESLint compromised, may have stolen your credentials by jessaustin on Thursday July 12, 2018 @04:36PM (#17518383)
You can do that for javascript too, but you'll be getting older versions of everything. That will also be true if you're using a C package under active development. Distros, by design, aren't as quick to update as npm.