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Come on, the internet has existed before the heavy reliance on JavaScript and npm. HN would be unaffected if core-js completely disappeared tomorrow. If someon
by doix 4y ago
Come on, the internet has existed before the heavy reliance on JavaScript and npm. HN would be unaffected if core-js completely disappeared tomorrow.
If someone had full control of BGP and demanded money, I guess you could say they are holding the internet hostage. This is very minor in comparison.
I'm not convinced trying to read between the lines and psychoanalyse what the maintainer is thinking is a great approach. English isn't their first language, nuance will be lost. Also culture will affect word choice and something that might be interpreted one way in the US would be taken differently in Russia.
I do agree that if you donate, you are back rolling an individual and not an organisation. But I don't see how that as a bad/good thing. Telling the guy he needs to stop writing code and instead manage people is pretty entitled.
Core-js going away probably isn't as big a deal as people make it out to be, as long as you aren't trying to use bleeding edge stuff. I suspect most projects are on an old frozen version of code-js anyway.
- hinkley 4y agoSam Obisanya: Jan is not being rude, he's just being Dutch. <team nods in understanding>
- EdwardDiego 4y agoHuh, that's how I, as a Kiwi, handled working with Germans. They're not being rude, they're just being German. Over time I came to appreciate their "rudeness" for what it was, forthrightness, and a cultural tendency to call a spade a fucking spade. The first few times I heard "Ja, natürlich?", it sounded sarcastic to this Kiwi. Turns out, they were agreeing with me.
- userbinator 4y agothe internet has existed before the heavy reliance on JavaScript and npm Clearly, the majority of the JS community don't know how the Internet existed before them because of their self-importance, and this article is a perfect example of that entitlement.