[agmcleod]

I think that person meant npm 5 perhaps?

[abritinthebay]

Which still isn't true, so I have no idea what they are talking about.

[z3t4]

The problem is with the ABI and libuv. It's very hard to debug and fix the problems if you do not know C++

I do a lot of systems programming in NodeJS and are depending on those modules to access platform API's.

[abritinthebay]

That’s surely a problem with C++ and OS tooling rather than npm tho...?

[z3t4]

The problem is NodeJS semver major, eg breaking changes. And the nodejs modules stop working. And the high frequency of semver major makes it hard to keep up. If you are lucky the module is maintained at all that is.

[realPubkey]

Good point. Indeed npm breaks a lot of things also for me.

[abritinthebay]

Like...?