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Is Yarn renamed to npm5?

If Yarn could do the things npm users need to do, then it could've been :)

Can you give some examples of what yarn can't do and npm can, I'm curious to learn about that :)

most of this is around reliability: npm can automatically detect unexpected changes in node_modules, autorecover from cache corruption, etc

(it's also able to guarantee you get the same tree between two different installs. yarn's guarantees around this are notably weaker)

you can see it as a tradeoff: npm might usually be slightly slower, but it does a lot more work. yarn prioritizes speed over reliability.

> yarn prioritizes speed over reliability This isn't really true. Yarn was originally started to ensure deterministic installs.

It has been and continues to be the main focus.