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Annie D @ann-arcana2/14/2023, 3:39 PM

Natalie @nex3

@lexi2/14/2023, 12:03 AM

if you use JS, as a dev or end user, you should read this

https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md

there's a pretty good chance you have used core-js already. please read through it, and consider donating & sharing his post. he really does not deserve any hate for the great work he does. he's the textbook definition of the thankless maintainer from nebraska.

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Natalie @nex32/14/2023, 5:46 AM

I'm constantly (and unsuccessfully) leaning on the message at work that if we don't start funding our open-source dependencies at least a percentage of "what would it cost us to have to do this in-house" we will end up paying 100% of what it costs to do it in-house. I feel for this guy and I'm really glad he's taking a firm stance

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mint @mintexists2/14/2023, 12:24 AM

his situation is fucked up it sucks

@elena2/14/2023, 1:02 AM

hhhhh

as much as i would jokingly say that this guy is my nemesis for helping javascript be more than a toy that keeps you from right clicking on an animated gif of a tiny pixel cat dancing or bouncing a browser window around, holy fucking shit this is a goddamn nightmare scenario that this dude is in whoooooooooooooo buddy. big sucking the teeth in and other anxiety reactions from their situation.

signal eleven @widr2/14/2023, 1:49 AM

dude's putting in endless thankless work and basically everyone depends on him. even if he's omitting something huge and he really is as much of an asshole as all these people say he is, it doesn't make everyone else taking his work for granted any less gross.

@elena2/14/2023, 8:08 PM

yeah, 100% agreed there.

the fact that discussions of making a fork had people going 'yeah we can't because we don't have the resources to maintain such a thing' in response while the guy was in prison should say something,

and like... while money is just bullshit in general, that doesn't change material reality in this moment. the fact that they're raising a family on less than one would get from the infamously cruel american disability payouts while essentially holding the modern form of The World's Wide Web up on their shoulders and they get rewarded by getting screamed at when their knees start to wobble.

蒸しルビー @YuushaRuby2/14/2023, 5:27 AM

I’m so mad reading this and fuck all those chuckle fucks giving this dude a hard time, I hope I can donate to him before too long or he gets massive funding and doesn’t fucking need donations, this is insane

Plum @plumpan2/14/2023, 6:21 PM

Stuff like this makes me want to see maintainers maliciously yoink code off the internet and leave everyone scrambling to fill the gaps. They have the right to do so at this point.

That might also fix the current tech staffing issues, maybe they do need more employees after all...

GLITCHYPSI @GlitchyPSI3/28/2023, 4:58 AM

why are people so thankless to open source maintainers

in reply to @nex3's post:

liffy 💜@lifning2/14/2023, 6:03 AM

on the one hand it's very much a shame you're not getting much traction with that, but on the other hand -- which turns out to be a monkey's paw -- knowing them, i get the feeling that if you did get them to do it, they'd proceed in some asinine way that only funds people who agree to doxx themselves or something

Kate @antumbral2/14/2023, 7:49 AM

yeah you only ever get offers of funding once you've stopped doing free work for corporations, and even at that point they offer way less than your time was worth

Natalie @nex32/14/2023, 7:55 AM

yeah, certainly nothing in any kind of scale with the actual value they get from your work. if every company that profited from the work I did for free paid me 1% of a developer's wage I would be extremely wealthy

ruby0x1 @ruby0x12/14/2023, 5:20 PM

it’s why I stopped doing my main project as that version of open source around 2015, thankfully more and more the discussion has come around to people realizing it’s unsustainable. And despite it being a known issue still nothing changes 🙃 so I’ll never bother with that version of it again sadly, despite loving it

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