THE VIDEO SHELF · package registry economics
The economics of open source by C J Silverio | JSConf EU 2019
C J Silverio, former npm CTO, explains how the JavaScript package commons ended up in the hands of a for-profit company with no accountability. She discusses the cost of running a registry and what the community should do next.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as the best account of what is wrong with npm's governance and why alternative or decentralized registries are hard.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- JSConf
- Topic
- package registry economics
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2020
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This is a great recent talk about this problem by the former NPM CTO in which she tells her story about NPM and proposes a new decentralized package manager: [VIDEO]
pier25 on Hacker News · 2019-06
In Pika CDN – A CDN for Modern JavaScriptFor those wondering what's wrong with npm, I can recommend this C J Silverio talk [VIDEO] Sadly, as others have noted, this Pika thing does not quite address these issues.
drej on Hacker News · 2019-11
In Pika – A JavaScript package registry for the modern web
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