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Malicious code ousted from PureScript's npm installer – but who put it there in the first place?

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The question is not "how?", but "why?"

"designed to install PureScript, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, on the user's system using the npm command line interface. It gets used about 2,000 times a week."

It's muppets all the way down.

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