By far the most popular npm package I’ve ever written is blob-util, which is ~10 years old and still gets 5+ million weekly downloads. It’s a small collection of utilities for working w…
Does this guy know that a lot of people open-source code so that it might be useful for other people?
Not numbers of downloads or hoping to gain popularity, but to literally help the community.
I read other people’s open source code all the time to try and understand things. I can’t be the only one.
What a strange article. Can I not “pin” his repo at a specific version in my project, thus making it a stable dependency? If it’s small and readable, that’s just as good as writing it yourself. What is dying?
Even that isn’t necessary. I do it because I want to share cool things, even if they’re not useful. The world didn’t need another crossword puzzle creator, I just felt like writing one.
Does this guy know that a lot of people open-source code so that it might be useful for other people?
Not numbers of downloads or hoping to gain popularity, but to literally help the community.
I read other people’s open source code all the time to try and understand things. I can’t be the only one.
What a strange article. Can I not “pin” his repo at a specific version in my project, thus making it a stable dependency? If it’s small and readable, that’s just as good as writing it yourself. What is dying?
Even that isn’t necessary. I do it because I want to share cool things, even if they’re not useful. The world didn’t need another crossword puzzle creator, I just felt like writing one.
Absolutely, “useful” is a broad term in this case.
It is always interesting to see how people implement things!