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Discussion on: What’s the most under-appreciated software?

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Massimo Artizzu

npm

Seriously, I think 75% of web development would be into chaos if npm suddenly stopped working. With that, a lot of IT companies.

What's actually quite scary is that npm is a private company that's still on the edge of financial collapse, and we don't have a backup plan ready.

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Michiel Hendriks

Doesn't that make npm over appreciated?

So much work relies on it, and it is still a really volatile piece of software. I don't use it that often, but every time I need to use it, something is broken in some way, again. NPM is the Windows Me package/dependency managers.

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Michel Renaud

One of my coworkers would agree with you. I'm still too new to it, though I grabbed some stuff a couple of weeks ago and kept seeing warnings about vulnerabilities and such and I was like, "OK, what the hell am I supposed to do about this?"