The massive bug at the heart of npm
JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development
The Timeline of Discovery of This Bug
Darcy Clark: This bug could also be coined a feature. It's been around since the beginning of time at the very beginning of the registry. So this bug I think I've liked it here was initially trashed by somebody on my team, Michael Garvin on October 22nd. And to be clear, this is 2022. Yeah, hopefully people are listening back and we haven't solved this problem in a decade from now. He says he realized pretty quickly on his own that there seemed to be problems with how we were caching or essentially rehydrating the state of the metadata, the manifest that we were holding around in memory.Clark quit GitHub shortly afterwards after finding out what had happened
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