I was talking about npm. And I find the JS community welcoming, friendly and passionate and for the more serious npm modules out there highly technically literate, but hey it's a subjective thing I suppose :/
So, the package manager that doesn’t do proper deduplication and, thanks to nested dependencies, runs over the file path length limit on multiple platforms?
FYI, the nesting and deduplication were fixed in NPM 3. It uses a flat structure now.
Unfortunately, in their place the version resolution algorithm is now subject to order dependency: the same package.json file, run at the same time with the same packages available in the NPM repository, can give different results on different machines depending on what had already been installed.
Ha ha, the effing path length limit drove me crazy! There'd be 50 node_modules folders and Windows wouldn't let you delete anything; It was nuts! I had to start renaming directories to "a", "b", "c", and so on until I cut the size down. I like JS for quick personal projects, but I'm glad I don't use it professionally anymore.
