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This is also my pet peeve with a lot of code as well as commands like

    npm -g i package-name
Like why would you teach people to do this? I understand people needed to save precious bytes in the sixties so we have cat and ls but saving 192 bytes or whatever with shorter variable names is not a worthwhile tradeoff anymore.


What exactly bothers you about this and what would you prefer to see?


I would prefer to see full names like

    npm install --global @scope/PackageName
At least the hi and lo can get more meaningful names. And over time we can write this in another language with private/scoped methods.




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