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"She added that she's heard rumors NPM Inc's CEO and CTO want to eliminate the
npm public registry – presumably leaving only a paid enterprise service."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/18/npm_uninstall_cofounder_global/
One of the conclusions yesterday was that we need to start preparing for this.
#jscc19 /status/1152238386578677760
Funding for npm is only secured until next year. There is a real possibility
that "npm I" will stop working, and right now most of us do not have a fallback
in place.
Things to look into are: entropic https://github.com/entropic-dev/entropic
using nix https://github.com/adnelson/nixfromnpm/blob/master/README.md #jscc19
and for browsers to user script type=module and resolve dependencies from URLs.