News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Incidents caused by unappreciated OSS maintainers or underfunded OSS projects. Parent comment

Re:Incidents caused by unappreciated OSS maintainers or unde... by WrtCdEvrydy on Saturday October 29, 2022 @11:43AM (#33385021)
> It's a hobby, not a job. If it's becoming too much of a distraction - just...stop doing it?

Sounds good, I'll just remove my libraries from npm... (oh wait, that's left-pad)

Okay, plan B, I'll hand it over to a random person... (oh wait, that's event-stream)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Incidents caused by unappreciated OSS maintainers or unde... by analognoise on Saturday October 29, 2022 @12:04PM (#33385273)
...and?

Like the internet will collapse without left-pad?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Incidents caused by unappreciated OSS maintainers or unde... by monetus on Saturday October 29, 2022 @12:22PM (#33385468)
Things are so complex, I sometimes wonder if left-pad being removed caused a car crash anywhere.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Incidents caused by unappreciated OSS maintainers or unde... by moron4hire on Saturday October 29, 2022 @12:48PM (#33385737)
I mean, it kind of did. I don't know if you were there, but if it didn't have an impact, we wouldn't be talking about it today.
[ Parent | on HN ]