NPM debug and chalk packages compromised

Finally validated for writing my own damn ANSI escape codes.

Yeah, I get that learning the codes is a little annoying, but not actually harder than finding, incorporating, and learning one of the APIs here. Also one is standard while the other is not. Seems a bit nuts to use a package for this.

Hi, missing a lot of history here. When Chalk was written, colors in the terminal wasn't a flashy thing people tried to do very often, at least not in the JS world. Coming from browsers and wanting to make CLI apps using the flashy new Node.js 0.10/0.12 at the time saw a lot of designers and other aesthetically-oriented folks with it. Chalk filled a hole for people to do that without needing to understand how TTYs worked.

Node.js proper has floated the idea of including chalk into the standard libraries, FWIW.

I doubt we'll ever see eye-to-eye on this. Some people try to think about how to write less code, and some people try to think about how to write more code.