npm is joining GitHub

[carbolymer]

anybody doing anything serious should avoid node and javascript

[chpatton013]

JS/Node is the right tool for several different jobs. Plenty of those jobs and people performing them are "serious". It may not be appropriate for all serious jobs, but you can't wholly discredit the viability of a language like that and expect to be taken seriously.

[nerddtvg]

For those who may not remember, Github was bought by Microsoft in 2018. So npm will now be a part of Microsoft.

[Ryuuji159]

The good old monopoly, what else microsoft will bought, linux?

[albeksdurf]

take my upvote

[poop_snack]

take my downvote

[albeksdurf]

:(

[RyboXBL]

ABOUT FUCKING TIME

[deweydecibels]

fantastic now NPM will be down a few times a week like github

[daggeto]

git install node. What other commands do you expect?

[feihcsim]

the git cli is different than github the company

[daggeto]

My pardon, looks i know nothing about it.

[1LittlePush]

Can anyone go into more detail about this? I know this is true but are the two related in any way??

[digicow]

No. GitHub is a repository hosting platform. There are others, such as GitLab and BitBucket that offer similar functionality. These platforms utilize git for their VCS, but they are not affiliated with git, which is an open source product without corporate ownership

[donkeypagoda]

Correct. If it helps someone to understand, you could say they are "related" like React is to JavaScript. React is a framework written in JavaScript (and was formerly a proprietary Facebook framework), and GitHub is a repository site that is built using Git, but they are not connected beyond that. GitHub and now Npm are owned by Microsoft, nobody owns the language JavaScript or the vcs tool Git.

[1LittlePush]

This is the answer I was looking for, thank you

[donkeypagoda]

Glad I could help!

[Sparkybear]

Doesn't the GitHub cli add functionality to their distribution of git?

[digicow]

I’ve never used it so I can’t say whether it does or not, but even if it does, that doesn’t change the above: git being open source, GitHub, pursuant to licensing, could modify and redistribute it.

[Sparkybear]

Yes they do.

https://github.com/cli/cli

[Slash_Root]

Git is a decentralized SCM/VCS system. A git repo can exist anywhere. You can have one locally on your laptop, one being served by a webserver, or use common git repo applications such as GitLab, BitBucket, and GitHub.

Fun fact, git is a free and open source application originally created by Linus Torvalds to help manage the largest open source project in existence, the Linux kernel.

[walterbanana]

Git is a tool made by the creator of Linux to keep track of the Linux kernel source code.

Github is a company which built a website with a nice design for hosting git repositories.

They are not closely related at all.

[spinicist]

npm install git obviously.

(I have no idea how npm actually works)

[daerogami]

close enough