> Shit happened 3 weeks after the core-js@3 release. One April night, at 3 AM, I was driving home. Two deadly drunk 18-years-old girls in dark clothes decided s

> Shit happened 3 weeks after the core-js@3 release. One April night, at 3 AM, I was driving home. Two deadly drunk 18-years-old girls in dark clothes decided somehow to crawl across a poorly lit highway - one of them lay down on the road, another sat down and dragged the first, but not from the road - directly under my wheels. That's what the witnesses said. I had no any chance to see them. One more witness said that before the accident they were just jokingly fighting on the road. Nothing unusual, it's Russia. One of them died and another girl went to a hospital. However, even in this case, according to Russian arbitrage practice, if the driver is not a son of a deputy or someone like that, he almost always will be found guilty - he should see and anticipate everything, and a pedestrian owes nothing to anyone. I could end up in prison for a long time, IIRC later the prosecutor requested 7 years. > The only way not to end up in prison was reconciliation with "victims" - a standard practice after such accidents - and a good lawyer. Within a few weeks after the accident, I received financial claims totaling about 80 thousand dollars at the exchange rate at that time from "victims'" relatives. A significant amount of money was also needed for a lawyer. I don't know the full details but this is incredibly sad. It must be a lot to have killed someone and then spent 18 months in prison. And he is still maintaining this library used by over 19 million repos full-time. Even though some of zloirock's actions have been rude and combative, I think he deserves sympathy. This was right before the "author of core-js is looking for a good job :-)" debacle, I think if more people realized the full context they would've been more sympathetic. Or even if it happened today, when more people seem to realize the importance of funding open-source. Fortunately he is out of jail now, I hope he finally gets a decent amount of funding and everyone can move on.