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Darryl Yeo đ ïž
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Imagine if GitHub or npm took control of your open-source project, republished it as their own, gaslit all your users into thinking itâs a security update, then extorted you for money because they donât like your business practices. This just happened with the WordPress plug-in registry and WP Engine (one of the most commercially successful WordPress hosts), and lots of customers and mom-and-pop shops are getting caught in the crossfire. Matt Mullenweg, successful as he is, is setting a terrible precedent for open-source software and needs to step down from WordPress and Automattic immediately. https://world.hey.com/dhh/open-source-royalty-and-mad-kings-a8f79d16
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Robotandkid
@robotandkid
Come on DH is talking about "mad kings"???? Come on This is the same mad king who removed Typescript from his repo, despite protests from his key own contributors, and at the end of the day looked more like a PR attempt to get eyeballs on his own project.
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Darryl Yeo đ ïž
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Iâm not completely filled in on that drama, but I think there are legitimate reasons to take an opinionated and orthogonal engineering direction to the rest of the industry and being a high-profile influencer in said industry inevitably necessitates navigating that pushback accordingly https://world.hey.com/dhh/open-source-hooliganism-and-the-typescript-meltdown-a474bfda
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Robotandkid
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it was bad for the JS ecosystem. As a hi-profile influencer he pushed for the equivalent of not wearing seatbelts. I spent months evangelizing against his take at my company of several 100 engineers đĄ Apparently, DH is known for crap like that
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Darryl Yeo đ ïž
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What was his reasoning for abandoning TypeScript for his own project, and why would that necessarily be bad for the rest of the industry?
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