CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any official fork?

Re:CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any offici... by jakear on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @12:36AM (#22681969)

Would you want all packages you're responsible for being taken over by whomever happens to be NPM's preferred forker in the event of your getting into legal troubles? I'd be strongly against that.

This should be handled the way any other fork happens: people create forks, other people audit them for stability and choose which to update their dependencies to. This isn't up to NPM to decide.

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Re:CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any offici... by waterfowl on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @12:37AM (#22681971)

Now Microsoft's preferred forker. Yikes!

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Re:CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any offici... by battery_cowboy on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @12:41AM (#22681984)

I'd rather hear Microsoft's suggestions on libraries to use than some random Joe Developer. They have/had unethical business practices, but their tech is really good and they have very smart people working for them.

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Re:CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any offici... by foepys on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @01:25AM (#22682181)

A lot of people are making fun of Microsoft but most of them don't know or appreciate that you can run software compiled in the 90s on the most recent Windows 10 1909 without problems. Microsoft's backwards compatibility is off the charts.

Try that with macOS.

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Re:CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any offici... by Zardoz84 on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @02:59AM (#22682546)

Well... Windows 10 have the record of the being the only windows that breaks backwards compatibility sometimes. I saw Visual Basic 5/6 applications stooping to work because Microsoft break something on a update.

Also, good luck trying to run any Windows 16 bit application on a modern Windows 64 bit installation.

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Re:CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any offici... by tim-- on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @03:05AM (#22682562)

> Also, good luck trying to run any Windows 16 bit application on a modern Windows 64 bit installation.

The officially supported method is to have Windows 10 (32 bit) running in HyperV. There is no 16 bit support in Windows 10 64bit builds.

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Re:CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any offici... by battery_cowboy on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @02:38PM (#22687222)

I can run Ubuntu now without worrying about hardware compatibility and I can play video games, all from Windows. I'm a fan.

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Re:CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any offici... by lzsiga on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @12:54AM (#22682035)

Something like that happened with `leftpad` in 2016.

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