Blah blah blah … head in the sand … blah blah blah free stuff forever … blah blah blah … Anyone who’s been around long enough to watch dependency culture rise

Blah blah blah … head in the sand … blah blah blah free stuff forever … blah blah blah … Anyone who’s been around long enough to watch dependency culture rise has known that it’s built on a house of cards. Open source development took root as a way to share cool work and receive some community recognition. Decades later, your code is the nth tier dependency silently sucked into 8 millions projects through some dependency manager CLI command, you’re not credited anywhere visible, and people are harassing you for not prioritizing their byzantine complaint over the day job work that actually makes sure your rent is paid. We’re slowly on our way back to reasoned, respectful, collegial practices among developers but the road there is going to see a lot of these card-houses catastrophically tumble.