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TimWolla on June 16, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git 2.9 released

It does not:

> For convenience, the recommended installation is via NPM. If you'd prefer, you may choose to do a manual installation instead. (highlighting by me)

It is written in Perl.

mbakke on June 16, 2016 [–]

Wait, what? A perl app distributed through NPM? What's next, a node app on CPAN?

Color me perplexed.

dietrichepp on June 16, 2016 | [–]

There are a lot of non-JS packages in NPM. The Closure compiler, for example.

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