[bshimmin]

It'd be good if there were a canonical "Why npm sucks" article, like the "fractal of bad design" one for PHP.

This one seems like a fairly reasonable candidate: http://www.jongleberry.com/why-i-hate-npm.html (though the "nested dependencies" bit needs much more swearing, and I disagree with the last paragraph suggesting things in Ruby and Python land are just as bad).

[evanriley]

In the last paragraph there, is he saying that Golang is 'bad' because it doesn't have a package manager? Does it need one? I always assumed 'go get' was enough.

Honestly curious here.

[stephenr]

So you want a list of out of date and idiotic problems interspersed with a few actual issues?

[codereflection]

I hadn't seen that post before. I agree with most of it. Nested dependencies is my main complaint about NPM.