M'yea, good luck finding such occurrence with NuGet or Maven for example. I would rephrase your "anywhere else".
NPM is a terrible ecosystem, and trying to defend its current state is a lost cause. The energy should be focused on how to fix that ecosystem instead of playing dumb telling people "it's all ok, look at other, also poorly designed, systems".
Don't forget that Rust's Cargo got heavily inspired by NPM, which is not something to brag about.[0]
> "Rust has absolutely stunning dependency management," one engineer
enthused, noting that Rust's strategy
took inspiration from npm's.
NPM is a terrible ecosystem, and trying to defend its current state is a lost cause. The energy should be focused on how to fix that ecosystem instead of playing dumb telling people "it's all ok, look at other, also poorly designed, systems".
Don't forget that Rust's Cargo got heavily inspired by NPM, which is not something to brag about.[0]
> "Rust has absolutely stunning dependency management," one engineer enthused, noting that Rust's strategy took inspiration from npm's.
[0]https://rust-lang.org/static/pdfs/Rust-npm-Whitepaper.pdf