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NPM package adds postinstall self-ad

2 pointsby bloomcaalmost 6 years ago

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bloomcaalmost 6 years ago
I found this discussion quite interesting. This package is a low-level polyfill library, and is used in a lot of places (you can tell, according to github by 2,5 millions other apps&#x2F;libs).<p>However, the author does not really have any money from it, maintaining it during his free time. Naturally, why people would go here, to such a low-level dependency?<p>Personally, I think Babel should support the author. But it shows an interesting phenomenon, when low-level libraries don&#x27;t give you anything, even if half of the JS toolchain depends on it.