[mcdirty]

I initially had problems with max character length for paths. When npm installed dependencies really deep down, Windows became unable to move or delete such files. I think it's been fixed with Yarn's flat dependency structure, which I think npm has also gone or is going to in the near future.

[zadjii]

Wait, is that for the Windows npm or the linux npm running on WSL? I don't believe the second would have ever had that problem

[moogly]

That change was made in NPM3, before Yarn was publicly released.