Comment by asciimoo
1 day ago
> Is it disrespectful if my proposed feature was merged, but then later was removed because the maintainer just didn't want the feature anymore?
No, the big difference is that the described scenario does not require getting familiar with a new 1M LoC codebase written in a different language to be able to continue contributing to the project.
For who? What you say is true for everyone who doesn't know Rust (before Zig), and not true for everyone else, same as it always is been, for every single FOSS project out there.
So it's disrespectful because before you could contribute, but because of the direction of the project, you no longer can?
Does that also means it'd be disrespectful to make projects more complicated and complex, because maybe someone who contributed initially don't know these new concepts, so introducing those would require this individual to learn about those things?
All of this still sounds like entitlement to me. Open source literally isn't about you, let people run their projects as they so wish, them making choices they think are better isn't disrespectful to anyone else, you're not forced to having to contribute to any FOSS projects.
> For who? What you say is true for everyone who doesn't know Rust (before Zig), and not true for everyone else, same as it always is been, for every single FOSS project out there.
Even if you are fluent in rust, it is going to require significant efforts to contribute to a new 1M LoC codebase.
> Open source literally isn't about you, let people run their projects as they so wish, them making choices they think are better
This is so far from the reality. The power of open source is coming from the contributors. Contributors are the most valuable assets of an open source project - without them most of the free tools you use would be significantly worse - including bun. The reason my open source projects got somewhat successful is the community that formed around the projects. And, it is hard to create a community when you give contributors no chance to participate in the projects direction, especially in such a critical decision that has enormous consequences.
> Even if you are fluent in rust, it is going to require significant efforts to contribute to a new 1M LoC codebase.
Of course, but this is true for any project or any language, can hardly be disrespectful of me to chose Clojure just because you don't happen to know it? That sounds crazy to me.
> Contributors are the most valuable assets of an open source project
You're talking about something else. Open source is literally about "This code has a specific license that allows you to do X" where X and Y differs by the license. Contributors or not matters squat if some open source project is valuable or not.
Don't mix concerns here, you're talking about "open development" or something else, not specifically open source.
Sure it's hard to create a community and get contributors and what not. But a maintainer choosing a different language and people feel that being "disrespectful" instead of just "stupid" or "dumb"? No, give me a break, you run your projects your way, and let others run theirs that way, they're not made for you, they just happen to be available to you because someone was nice enough to make it so. Don't spoil that by acting so entitled about how they should maintain and develop their project.
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> Open source literally isn't about you, let people run their projects as they so wish, them making choices they think are better isn't disrespectful to anyone else, you're not forced to having to contribute to any FOSS projects.
Tell me you've never worked on any meaningful OSS project.
Good luck to Bun, if I was in any of its contributors list, and not on Anthropic's payroll, I'd say goodbye and never touch the project with a ten foot pole. And I say this as an honest feedback, save your "don't let the door hit you on the way out".