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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flaw... by mweberxyz on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @06:51PM (#27534389)
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.
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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flaw... by rovr138 on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @07:24PM (#27534637)
and if they get pissed, they can also remove the package and break thousands of code bases essentially instantly.
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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flaw... by AgentME on Thursday June 17, 2021 @12:54AM (#27536240)
NPM hasn't allowed unpublishing packages for years.
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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flaw... by mypalmike on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @08:28PM (#27535006)
And then thousands of scripts that parse the old output would start to fail. :-)
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