Instead of nurturing narcissistic language ambassadors that drop their projects like they change fedora hats every time they get a new idea, let’s create more t

Instead of nurturing narcissistic language ambassadors that drop their projects like they change fedora hats every time they get a new idea, let’s create more tools to improve code quality and foster a sense of community. Human progress is not going to happen by default. That was not the case with clean energy, or with quality education, and it will not be different with open source fragmentation. These problems require active monitoring and organized effort. This is why I'm part of KDE. It's a large, diverse and productive community of people that want to bring Free Software forward. KDE exists 20 years this year and it's still growing and evolving. New developments come in, but they reviewed and nurtured in the community before being released under the KDE flag. JavaScript could use a community like that where there is a common set of tools and values. The JavaScript that I see out there usually has very little quality control. It's easy to make something that looks nice and does not crash. But scaling up to an application that is complex and stable is hard. I learned this when developing the (now resting) library WebODF. Javascript comes with great tools like JSLint and Closure Compiler, and Jasmine but these are rarely used strictly. Very few JavaScript developers have read 'JavaScript, the good parts' which is essential reading when writing non-trivial JS. Node.JS promises the ability to reuse code on the server and the browser, but does not provide a module solution that makes that possible and works with the tools mentioned above. Competition between KDE, GNOME and others on the Linux desktop exists because there is only one desktop on your computer. Javascript lacks such a focal point and JS framework developers can start new projects because it's easy to have a different half-baked framework in each browser tab. You cannot build a cathedral out of market stalls. (KDE is the Sagrada Familia in this simile)