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I went to DuckDuckGo to check out what yarn is. The front page makes no mention of JavaScript at all (at least on mobile). Accordingly to DuckDuckGo the whole site mentions "JavaScript" only three times. The same is true about the GitHub readme: no mentions of JavaScript at all. Before praising something, makes sense to tell people what it is.

/rant

Thanks for the highlight, I use npm solely for global installs, will give yarn a try.

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I used DDG too, Generally, one would search for something like "yarn npm" in which case it is like the second link is the yarn homepage and the first link is a npm vs yarn post. DDG isn't as good as Google in figuring out context because it doesn't assume you are a programmer because it doesn't track or bubble you.

>I went to DuckDuckGo to check out what yarn is.

And DuckDuckGo (mentioned twice in the comment) is relevant because?

Because DuckDuckGo's index of the yarn's website could be screwed or out of date. Also, because people communicate using language, not axioms.

>Because DuckDuckGo's index of the yarn's website could be screwed or out of date.

And why should we know about DDG's index info about Yarn?

Just visit Yarn's actual project site (which is what you're supposed to be criticizing), and focus your critique on what's actually there now.

>Also, because people communicate using language, not axioms.

So? How does that justify adding off-topic/redundant information on one's critique?

> Before praising something, makes sense to tell people what it is.

I don't know where you've been but anyone who is even remotely invested in the npm ecosystem probably knows what Yarn is at this point.

This is irrelevant. You may be just a new comer, or not a professional developer, and still want to use yarn. A clear website seems a basic requirement to me for any project.

>A clear website seems a basic requirement to me for any project.

Well, you can't always depend on that, and in the end of the day, nothing beats actually researching and asking around.

The GNU tools have some of the worst webpages -- and yet they are some of the most useful, and commonly used, packages.

Let's take a look at GNU tar [1] and GNU social [2] webpages as examples. The first thing they tell a user is what the project is. I would say, both of them are order of magnitude better than the yarn homepage.

1. https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ 2. https://gnu.io/social/

>GNU Tar provides the ability to create tar archives

Really descriptive.

Yarn has been the talk of the dev world for the last week man. It had a large upswing on both here and reddit.

Not everyone reads news all the time.

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