First: please don't abandon sharing your code on GitHub because of this issue. Other people may find your code useful; some may raise issues that help you further develop the code.

Second: my approach to receiving bad feedback - and, as a poet, I have wide experience of this[1] - is to thank the person for their time, and then move on. For example: "Thank you for taking the time to read and respond to poem X. Best wishes, Rik". Never, ever, argue with the critics! In this case, assume the person raising the issue was having a bad day (which is a better assumption than deciding they're just a jerk/troll/nasty person) - thank them for taking the time to look at your concept and then close the issue as "won't fix".

Hope this helps.

[1] My favourite 'review' of one of my (love) poetry chapbooks was: "Don't buy this book. My friend bought this book and now she's broken up with her boyfriend" ... if only my words had such power!

Who gives a shit? Close the issue, then block the guy and move on with your life.

There will always be haters and trolls. Don't let them drag you down. Don't expend energy and emotion on them. You are not ding anything to hurt them.

Friend, let me first say that I'm not a js coder, I don't know whether the criticisms in that issue are justified or not. It is certainly an unkind response, if someone doesn't like a library they could suggest improvements or just ignore it. You would be justified in closing the issue with the comment "this is not an issue".

That said, even though the words were unkind, you would be wise to ask yourself if there is any truth in them; do some research on the criticisms that this guy made. If there is grounds, then you have an opportunity to improve your library, and more importantly your skills, if not then you have a coherent argument as to why your approach has merit. Don't do this immediately, leave GitHub alone for a week and come back to it when you've had a pause to reflect.

There is some merit to the criticisms, though they were given with a total lack of tact. Web standards are important and define multiple ways you can provide custom attributes while still working with valid code and not stepping all over the platform namespace. By using invalid HTML this makes the job of web standardization harder, plus users of this code have to practice writing invalid code and hope the tool fixes it. There's just simply nothing gained from this design choice when making it valid and future proof would have been just as easy.

I totally agree with the "ignore the haters" attitude, but I am also in agreement with the criticism. Maybe this can be an opportunity to improve it and have it work with valid HTML and then even more good comes from this mis-handled issue!

> "I don't know if I'll ever share new prototypes or keep them to myself."

Please keep open-sourcing your work, everyone benefits including you. This is incredibly rare in my experience, and you can see from the reactions that it is not acceptable behaviour.

On the plus side, many people opensource complex projects to get no feedback at all, so at least you're rattling a few cages! ;)

Don't be disappointed. I personally admire people who try anything open source. Remember that you always have some loud mouthers on the internet who think they know it better. Do what you need to do and keep going. You will ultimately always have more people supporting you than idiots like that. Don't give up because of that 1 guy.

Btw, your response to him was way more dignified than I would have replied if it was my project :). Close that issue and move on. You will have plenty of constructive feedback coming your way.

Professional magicians are perfectly happy using gimmicks and props if it makes their magic more magical, and helps their shows go off without a hitch (indeed, that huge machine on the stage probably isn't a real body-destroying saw, and the roulette gun probably isn't actually able to shoot real live rounds!). Elitist beginners simultaneously snub their noses and brag about how they only use the hardest possible methods, because they're just that good, and they love that there are so many others that'll chime in along with them.

But really it's because they don't really have an audience to worry about whether their routines are stable and will work reliably every time. They're only concerned with telling you and everyone in earshot/eyeshot how great they think themselves to be. It's an opinion of person rather than the quality of work they do. He's the equivalent of a heckler - nothing to add, no reason to entertain their opinions.

Comments like his, which are meant to deter people from sharing anything, are what dirties the water. Not the choice of other peoples' tools.

Anyway, it's the wuh wuh wuh. You'll never see the end of useless naysayers. Like professional magicians, you just shrug them off in the most hospitable / tactful way you can, and keep doing what you're doing, knowing that you do actually have an appreciative audience.

Besides, buddy has "marketing" in his name, but he's clearly lacking in people skills to pull that off. Don't take advice from people who prove themselves to be lesser than you.

Really getting tired of the everyone-who-doesn't-think-like-me-is-wrong culture.

It’s one thing to have a different opinion and giving constructive feedback. Asking someone to delete their repo is way over the line. If you don’t like it, simply don’t use it and move on with your life.

I really don't see the "culture". This is just someone being an overbearing asshole on the internet. They had people like this back in Usenet days.

Another example is job interviews where the interviewers often think that anyone who's good in tech XYZ should know some obscure facts UVW.

Thank you for your work, and sharing openly. Please continue to do so. Remember that most people in the world are kind and appreciative. Don't read too much into what the toxic vocal minority says. We can't prevent the vocal minority from being toxic, but we can learn to ignore them. But it is easier said, than done, I know. Wishing you all the best!

Illegitimi non carborundum - don't let the bastards grind you down - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum

You are doing great. Thanks for sharing. Keep it going! ;)

>What happened to the freedom of Opensource and giving room for innovation? I am deeply disappointed.

Averages do not describe the individuals.

I'm sorry the first response to your project was negative, but you are on the public internet. This kind of thing will happen, there are no barriers or boundaries strong enough to prevent people from occasionally being disagreeable or unpleasant.

You don't need to delete it. They have their own opinion that they don't like it, but you can write it and share it anyways; that they want to delete it is just their opinion.

Let's check some of his projects to see if we can give some feedback.

Honestly I kind of like your library! I'm going to look more into it.

Some people are asshats!

From the bottom of their personal site:

"If you're wondering, I hand-wrote the HTML, CSS, and Javascript for this website (without using any JS libraries)."

Sounds like they are really fun at parties.

...I apologize for the use of ad-hominem in this comment.

It's funny, because their website is horrendously broken on mobile.

Now, hmm, I wonder what would've fixed that.

CSS?