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SE Radio 553: Luca Casonato on Deno

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Node Technical Steering Committee

NPM is a private company, ultimately bought by GitHub and they had full control over how the NPM CLI evolved. Nobody forced NPM to make sure that package installed times are six times faster than they were three years ago. So it didn't happen. And I think this is really a failure of the node technical steering committee and also the wider JavaScript ecosystem of not being persistent enough with like focus on performance, focus on user experience, and then focus on simplicity. Like things got so out of hand and I'm happy we're going in the right direction now, but yeah, it was terrible for some time.

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