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What is happening in the linked discussion from the readme: * https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/13783 https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/13783 I’m not exac

• 0xdeadb00f 5y ago
  From my understanding, a well-known developer stole Colorette code (a node module for CLI colors) and rebranded it as Nanocolors with very minor changes. Then, the nanocolors creator started going around repos that use Colorette, telling them to switch to Nanocolors. That's all i know. If anyone wants to make corrections or additions to that please do.
  • znyboy 5y ago
    As a correction, they were aiming to replace the usage of Chalk with Nanocolors on the grounds of (questionable) performance improvements.
  • 5560675260 5y ago
    It started a bit earlier, 2.0 release of colorette introduced breaking changes in color detection. This caused a major fallout with a creator on nanocolors who was a minor contributor and used colorete in some of his popular projects. Most of the comments on the relevant issue are gone now, so we can only guess how heated it was.
• pull_my_finger 5y ago
  The author of nanocolors plagiarized colorette, removing all indication that it was someone else's work, added a few micro-optimizations then encouraged all of their associated libs like postcss/auto-prefixer to use "their" library as an optimization removing chalk. Colorette's author called them out and a bunch of drama ensued. Really never should have happened in the first place, you'd have to go out of your way to remove all the git history and all that to hide the fact that you copied someone else's work, and then to make a bunch of drama and not own up to it was pretty distasteful.