Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?

Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by lhnz on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @06:08AM (#27116240)

  > I'm just going to be explicit. In 2020, Henry created 12
  > issues, commented 25 times, and created 29 pull requests.
  > This is across all Babel orgs.
  >
  > https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1392053448892469250

There has been a lot of innovation within the tooling ecosytem over the last year (esbuild, vite, snowpack, bundless, swc, whatever Jarred Sumner is working on). None of this innovation is coming from Babel.

It seems like a gravy train. Open-source contributors of other projects are currently carrying the torch of uncompensated work.

If they want to get paid, they need to think about how they currently fit into the ecosystem.

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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by metaphor on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @06:31AM (#27116361)

I admittedly fail to see how that Twitter remark survives a naive sanity check[1]. What am I missing here?

[1] https://github.com/hzoo

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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by sebastianmck on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @06:40AM (#27116414)

I explicitly state 2020. Activity picked up in March. Use GitHub search filters and it’s more apparent.

Activity graphs can be deceiving, it’s extremely easy to look busy. Actually drill down and you’ll notice a lot of the activity earlier in this year was just pull request approvals, without comment, mostly done after someone else had already approved.

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