> Many people write their own projects as well as contribute to other projects Yeah, I know, I do the same thing myself! The question still remains: why would

> Many people write their own projects as well as contribute to other projects Yeah, I know, I do the same thing myself! The question still remains: why would you want to have a popular project? It makes no sense to desire that... Desiring that a project exists that solves a problem well... that yes, we should all desire that, but who created it doesn't really matter... if I create a project these days, it's to solve a problem I really can't find anything else to solve, not because I want to write something popular... TBH if it becomes popular, I might see that as a problem rather than a good thing given what comes with it: feature requests, bug reports, PRs that you need to spend time on while sometimes just not wanting to accept the change, self-awareness that you can no longer just change stuff at will if you want it... I have a few slightly popular projects, but the ones I like the most are the obscure ones I use by myself :)