688: Ex-npm Employee Making a New Package Manager?! Vlt with Darcy Clarke

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Darcy Clarke about his career path in tech, working with Wes back in the day, why he decided to build vlt volt, and the biggest sick pick list yet!
Show Notes 00:32 Welcome
01:38 Building a tweet wall back in the day
08:54 How did you land at npm?
npm

19:40 Why do we need another package manager and registry?
22:11 What is vlt volt?
vlt: a new home for open source

vlt /vōlt/ (@vltpkg) / X

Shipping ESM with Mark Erikson

Bun

Yarn

Nx

27:18 Do you see a future where we don’t pre-compile before shipping?
29:32 Why would pnpm be faster than npm?
31:14 What are the problems with symlinking?
33:08 What’s happening with Yarn?
Verdaccio

Cloudsmith

jfrong

Sonatype

socket.dev

Snyk.io

Dependency Confusion

37:42 What do you think about config files?
antfu Config of File Nesting for VS Code

The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem

WebTorrent

41:02 VS Code tip - file nesting patterns
41:59 How does on-prem registry work?
47:29 Where does Socket.dev and Snyk security fit?
52:46 Sick Picks
04:41 How did you get vlt.sh?
05:30 How did you get @Darcy?
Sick Picks Flat Coat Goldendoodle

Scientific American

Nespresso

BlackBerry (2023) - IMDb

BlackBerry (2023) Letterboxd

Matthias Wandel

Blink-182 Official Site

Moneen

Bring Me The Horizon

Shameless Plugs vlt: a new home for open source

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