It is quite a congenial response and no disrespect to npm inc, but yarn will be technically far superior (if it's not already), and I can't help but interpret this as the beginning of the end for npm....It was only a matter of time though since there are a number of systemic problems with npm and (in my opinion) it is at the center of the dysfunctional world of modern JavaScript tooling. It did move the ecosystem forward significantly for a number of years, but now something better is required. Sorry to be blunt, just my opinion.

I'm glad they're okay with it but then again what else would they post? npm has some major, major issues with it and it has barely moved in years. This Yarn looks like it solves quite a few issues with npm and it took another company to build it.

That's insane. It wouldn't surprise me if yarn becomes popular and its proxy to npm slowly turns off and boom, everyone would be migrated and npm would be left with little to no users. Yeah that's probably unlikely for the immediate future but Yarn is positioned perfectly to siphon off npm's users very painlessly.

Looks like they are trying to write off yarn as just another alternative install tool. I think this is short cited and hope they are taking this threat more seriously internally.

That's pretty well written, though you can see slight hints of bitterness in the tone (though its subtle). Or maybe I'm a little biased, because I've seen some of the non-public reactions, and they were more than a little bitter...

Interesting how they point out how Yarn still depends on them since it pulls packages from NPM's package repo. Kind of like a reminder of who the dominant player still is.