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What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (2 children)

This library is/was infamous for printing a message such as "the author of this library is looking for a job" to the npm log. Predictably, he got pilloried for it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

The problem isn't that someone does that, but that they feel the need to do it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

How was the reaction not to open a Patreon/Liberapay so the guy didn't need a job? I don't know but this seemed to have been a pretty important thing? Downloaded 26M times, if 10% of downloaders gave $1 then that would have been $2.6M!