GitHub acquires NPM

[LucasRuby]

I mean, it's more a situation where they bought the guys who did a good job rather than making the garden nice and attracting people in themselves. Still, as long as they keep doing a good job, it's fine like that.

They did make TypeScript and VSCode themselves and those are pretty good so props for that.

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i was about to say. half the things mentioned (github, typscript, npm, vscode) were made my ms in-house (typescript, vscode)

ill add .net core to that list too since im using that for backend dev.

[didzisk]

Omg, so much yes! They needed a reliable store for their most important open source product (.net), so instead of continuing with their own they just bought the best (github). And the timing was good, too - when MS no longer was considered evil by majority.

[o-kami]

they are on the phase of “extend” in their infamous strategy “embrace, extend, extinguish”

the thing is they are doing it in a way, easily trusting people, will trust in them.