it's humbling. With a small community, if you have an idea, you can create a pull request and change the shape of the ecosystem. It's not that hard to create th

it's humbling. With a small community, if you have an idea, you can create a pull request and change the shape of the ecosystem. It's not that hard to create the definitive library, with a few weeks or months of effort. In a medium community, you can shape discussion. It's still possible to have a lot of influence without tons of effort. In a large community, you're up against really smart people who are paid to solve problems that can take weeks to simply understand. You could hack up golang library for web handling that's somewhat novel and get traction. Java? Tomcat has tens of thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands) of professional hours thrown at it.