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kinda sad that so many people read this and responded within 30 secs with their knee-jerk reaction.Please give it just a minute before you assume I'm talking about repeating all the mistakes of other package distribution systems
https://twitter.com/mjackson/status/1279076047649075209
To people who say this would be like Go or bower or deno: No. That's not what I'm talking about.
Those systems all rely on individuals to maintain their own repos. I'm talking about repos that are managed solely by the registry. Immutability is guaranteed. GH is just the db.
Those systems all rely on individuals to maintain their own repos. I'm talking about repos that are managed solely by the registry. Immutability is guaranteed. GH is just the db.
To those who think it would be slow: No.
You would obviously still need an actual registry server that resolves semver. GH wouldn't handle that for you. So you put the registry behind a cache/CDN, same as npm currently does. It would be just as fast.
You would obviously still need an actual registry server that resolves semver. GH wouldn't handle that for you. So you put the registry behind a cache/CDN, same as npm currently does. It would be just as fast.
Anyway, maybe I just did a poor job of explaining it.
When I first told people about unpkg they thought it was a dumb. But now we serve billions of requests every day.
I should probably just build it and stop talking about it... then you'll get it
When I first told people about unpkg they thought it was a dumb. But now we serve billions of requests every day.
I should probably just build it and stop talking about it... then you'll get it
