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    My crazy theory is that it’s a hack by someone who had an untouchable devops script with the typo, so made the package to fix the deployment pipeline.

    But really, NPM could do a better job of protecting against names like this. The package is harmless (for now), but it’s not a stretch to imagine malware typosquatting.

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      My crazy theory is that it’s a hack by someone who had an untouchable devops script with the typo, so made the package to fix the deployment pipeline.

      Distressingly possible.

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      Lodash is super mad that they didn’t just name their library _ on NPM.

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        “Why not use lodash? You might already have it as a dependency!”

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          That’d cause a lot of confusion with Underscore though… “which fork am I installing again?”

          But it would still be pretty funny :D