[eximius]

Those are fairly indistinguishable. It's when they start removing letters from words to save... debug symbol bytes or something? That's when c-style naming annoys me.

[adrianton3]

In their defence "hi" sounds very much like "high" in my mind's ear and "lo" like "low" :)

[collabs]

This is also my pet peeve with a lot of code as well as commands like

    npm -g i package-name 

Like why would you teach people to do this? I understand people needed to save precious bytes in the sixties so we have cat and ls but saving 192 bytes or whatever with shorter variable names is not a worthwhile tradeoff anymore.

[nchmy]

What exactly bothers you about this and what would you prefer to see?

[collabs]

I would prefer to see full names like

    npm install --global @scope/PackageName 

At least the hi and lo can get more meaningful names. And over time we can write this in another language with private/scoped methods.