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by 1stop 4493 days ago
> I'm glad we've started to move away from node.js and started to use Java.

That is what I was responding to directly. The implication from the statement was that npm flaws (i.e certificate changes that break everything) is a good reason to switch to Java.

It isn't at all a good reason to switch to java, as java's equivalent would easily waste more time than even this rather embarrassing certificate problem with npm.

> unrelated-yet-similar technologies

It is related, and similar, it is a like-for-like comparison between nodejs package management and java package management.
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teacup50 4493 days ago
> It isn't at all a good reason to switch to java, as java's equivalent would easily waste more time than even this rather embarrassing certificate problem with npm.

Works fine for me. Has a healthy ecosystem of 3rd-party artifact repository implementations.

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EdwardDiego 4493 days ago
> It isn't at all a good reason to switch to java, as java's equivalent would easily waste more time than even this rather embarrassing certificate problem with npm.

As someone who has used it daily for the past 5.5 years - not really. That said, I'd prefer something like Gradle, but I can't fault Maven for just working, goddamnit.

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