Everybody knows npm is a gaping security issue waiting to happen. Repeatedly.
It’s convenient, so it’s popular.
Many people also don’t vendor their own dependencies, which would slow down the spread at the price of not being instantly up to date.
npm sold it really hard that you could rely on them and not have to vendor dependencies yourself. If I suggested that a decade ago in Seattle, I would have gotten booed out of the room.
Yet here we are. And this is going to get massively worse, not better.
I mean, I believe you, but the person you are replying to obviously believes that they are similar. Could you explain the significant differences?
> Unfortunately, in the world of software there are bad actors that bundle malware with their apps. Even so, Homebrew Cask has long decided it will not be an active gatekeeper (macOS already has one) and users are expected to know about the software they are installing. This means we will not always remove casks that link to these apps, in part because there is no clear line between useful app, potentially unwanted program, and the different shades of malware—what is useful to one user may be seen as malicious by another.
Like ... npm?