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by vonklaus 3519 days ago
Eh, NPM is a pretty core service and both sides probably should have done things a bit differently. I don't neccessarily think vscode needed to reach out to NPM to let them know they were going to be consuming their public API. Both teams appear to be in communication as a result however-- which is good.

This will likely lead to more fault tolerant systems on both projects and hopefully more collaboration & features in the future.
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CapacitorSet 3519 days ago
>I don't neccessarily think vscode needed to reach out to NPM to let them know they were going to be consuming their public API.

VSCode is used by a non-negligible number of users, and seems to rely on npm to operate at its best. It would have been good etiquette to let npm know, even though they couldn't forecast this exact situation.

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vonklaus 3519 days ago
I am not the architect of any large scale system-- that said, I wouldn't expect developers to reach out to GitHub.

However, it isn't bad etiquette and I'm sure Microsoft could get in touch with the devs. Interesting thought.

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