This was excellent, but conveniently left off any discussion that npm can “un-un-publish” a programmer’s code against their wishes, and apparently without repercussions?
All for the greater good, especially if it’s the choice between one guy’s desire to nuke their own code VS tens / hundreds of thousands of projects that depend on it.
https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code
This was excellent, but conveniently left off any discussion that npm can “un-un-publish” a programmer’s code against their wishes, and apparently without repercussions?
Fuck npm, I guess.
All for the greater good, especially if it’s the choice between one guy’s desire to nuke their own code VS tens / hundreds of thousands of projects that depend on it.
Thank you for sharing this. I learn something new everyday, much appreciated.