8/4/2026 at 6:51:36 PM
I am not sure exactly what this service is or why it is desirable. Pitch me in five seconds or less?by thataccount
8/4/2026 at 7:36:55 PM
5s: save time & money10s: vlt helps engineering teams build JavaScript software faster, reduce supply chain risk, and lower infrastructure costs (via. API perf / payload optimizations).
20s: If you've used npm for years & are just narrowly escaping the various malware attacks or are on the hook for running up CI/agent bills at work because cold installs are X percent of the time compared to your actual builds/runtime, then you should check us out.
22s: Also, <insert jFrog grumble>.
by clarke78
8/4/2026 at 9:41:15 PM
Yeah but what is it?by skrebbel
8/4/2026 at 8:47:47 PM
To add a bit of non-Vlt (I work on the JS Platform Team at Netflix where I have driven many of our decisions in the package manager space the past 6 years) but highly involved and supportive community member:The team that was able to ship the most important features for npm to be competitive in the modern JS stack from ~2020 was able to take a fresh look at the problem without the organizational baggage of Github/Microsoft.
On the technical side, the ecosystem is maturing and we need a better set of foundational tools to meet that maturity level. This includes deep commitment to performance, security, and DX. The full product is more than just a package manager, it is a registry, a registry client, a task runner, and much more. Vlt is aiming to be this mature foundation.
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong on anything here Darcy.
P.S. grumble grumble...jFrog is a trash fire....grumble grumble
by wesleytodd
8/4/2026 at 8:51:49 PM
...can you make the 5s pitch be more like 'X times faster than pnpm and more secure' but fill X for me? unless it isn't pnpm at all in which case replace with 'it does X' because I've no idea after reading your post and a quick skim of the announcement itself?by baq
8/4/2026 at 9:19:52 PM
Perf is highly nuanced but we've been doing realistic benchmarking for the ecosystem for almost a year now: https://benchmarks.vlt.sh/We've got more improvements coming soon but we're a roughly ~10-40% faster registry then npm out-of-the-box. Compared to incumbent enterprise registries we're like ~3x.
by clarke78
8/4/2026 at 9:29:42 PM
jFrog is horrendous, so can you also tackle Python please?by xixixao