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why is this using npm and not brew?

this is not osx specific. its gonna be installable on other platforms as well (linux/osx/windows)

They are hoping to support Hyper-V soon (open task).

Why does this use npm instead of a tarball?

yeah, I think im not alone prefering npm for (cross-platform) node packages and homebrew for (osx-specific) general-purpose utilities