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by rubiquity 3782 days ago
This only makes sense if you believe all Homebrew packages are written in JavaScript... which they aren't. Also I've been using Homebrew for about 4x as long as NPM and I have about 1/10th of the issues, so I'll just stick to the package manager that works.
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maxthegeek1 3782 days ago
You can use npm to distribute binaries.
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EvanPlaice 3782 days ago
That doesn't mean it's a good idea to.

NPM does a great job of distribiting development dependencies and Node.js applications.

It's not really intended for non-js binary builds and platform-specific dependencies.

You can always use NPM to install directly from specific repo release but you'll still have to have to include a native compile-to-platform step somewhere.

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