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Jeremy doesn't benefit from having popular JavaScript libraries? This is news to me.

• untog 12y ago
  Interesting that your choice of phrase is "having" those libraries. Not "creating", "developing" or "maintaining". It's as if they just dropped into his lap or something. Of course there are benefits to being a well known JS developer. But there are also drawbacks to spending a huge amount of personal time developing projects that hundreds of thousands of people depend upon and taking no money in return. Come on. Don't get me wrong, breaking changes in code are A Bad Thing. But it irks me that instead of everyone saying "oh, what an unfortunate mistake, how can we fix it?" they say "Jeremy broke my app".
  • Touche 12y ago
    You're getting far off track here. Regardless of the reason for publishing to NPM, he does so knowing that it will break people's applications. You seem to be suggesting that he owes them nothing; I'm saying he owes them the courtesy not to poke them in their eyes.
    • geoffharcourt 12y ago
      If breaking an undocumented feature is such an egregious affront, the proper approach would be to vote with your feet.