[dontlaugh]

It wasn’t the first package manager for a programming language and plenty of us pointed out the folly of packages that small.

Npm (and JS in general) is a victim of fashion, primarily.

[jmillikin]

I think that statement is parsed as "npm was the first incredibly accessible package manager for [server-side JavaScript, which at the time was] an emergent popular technology,"

[dontlaugh]

I get that, but there was plenty of prior art to learn from anyway.

[junon]

That isn't what I was claiming. I was drawing attention to it being super early on in an ecosystem, in an industry where lots of the "package manager best practices" are now formed based on Node's small-package qualms.