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Re:Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond by s_tec on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:30PM (#18994110)
I get what you are saying, but the two cases are different. Typescript is a whole different language from Flow, so they can't interoperate. Every package that migrates to Typescript deprives the Flow ecosystem of compatibility and mindshare, so a win for one is always a loss for the other. Nobody wants to be a loser, so this will eventually resolve itself into a single dominant choice.

NPM and Yarn don't have this problem, since they are pretty much drop-in replacements for each other. As long as `yarn install` and `npm install` both get the job done equally well, picking one becomes a personal choice. Every project that adopts a standard package.json is a win for both NPM and Yarn. There doesn't need to be a loser in this case, and diversity is good.

Re:Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond by Waterluvian on Friday January 25, 2019 @06:45AM (#18997207)
That's a really good point. Thanks for sharing. Drop in alternatives can be healthy and not that harmful. It's not like we are locked into two separate camps.