[Nix-dev] Simplify node packages?

[Colin Putney]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Profpatsch <mail at profpatsch.de> wrote:

> yarn is really just a 1:1 rewrite of node with lockfiles.
> I don’t know why people celebrate it so much,
> because it does exactly nothing differently apart from
> creating the lockfiles.
> Don’t even know why a rewrite was necessary.
>

There are 2 improvements:

   - lock file
   - caching of downloads

These address two huge pain points in the node world, not coincidentally
the ones that nix also fixes.

Colin
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