alt Hacker NewsGithub / Microsoft could easily fix this, couldn't they? Leaving NPM up in its current state seems criminal, especially since LLMs generate NPM commands so frequently.
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sheept • yesterday at 11:17 PM
Is it possible to fix it in a backwards compatible way? Removing lifecycle scripts is at least a semver major change, and would complicate existing projects relying on packages with lifecycle scripts from upgrading.
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They have some changes here in v12: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-upcoming-breaking-c...