Top 4 JavaScript Proposal Projects

core-js

141 23,817 9.8 JavaScript

Standard Library

Project mention: Emacs' helm is maintained by one maintaner for 11 years long | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-22

This is surprisingly common. The other example off the top of my head, a single maintainer of a very popular project who had to temporarily abandon it due to lack of funds, is Denis Pushkarev (zloirock) and core.js (https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02...).
The majority of OSS projects have most of their contributions by one person (the project leader), and the vast majority of OSS contributors don't do it for their job. It seems nearly every single popular OSS project is like this (one unpaid, maybe sponsored, volunteer doing most of the work); it's not even worth listing projects and names, because you can just pick a couple projects you know and I bet at least one will be an example. Fortunately, most of these people seem to be well-off (probably in part due to the quality of programming jobs), but every once in a while there's someone who's not so fortunate. It should be more common to sponsor maintainers, especially if they are asking for donations provided they can prove that they really need the money (the world we live in, some people who have plenty fake issues to solicit donations, then others who genuinely need and deserve the money are scolded and left unfunded because of them).

rfcs

35 716 5.6 JavaScript

Public change requests/proposals & ideation (by npm)

Project mention: Yarn 4.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-23

npm workspaces plus Wireit works far better than Lerna, in my experience.
https://github.com/google/wireit
Wireit's ability to specify actual script dependencies, do caching (and on Github actions), and it's long-running service script support make it much more useful and comprehensive than Lerna.
I agree that this should be built into npm. There's an RRFC for it here: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/issues/706

SurveyJS

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js-proposal-algebraic-effects

3 167 0.0 JavaScript

📐Let there be algebraic effects in JS

Project mention: Proposal: Signals as a Built-In Primitive of JavaScript | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-31

I have to admit: you're perfectly right here. React of course always relied on mutable state in it's implementation – just so we don't have to. I derailed a lot here to keep this funny thread going ;) I'm still not with you on your definition of "functional", since you treated it synonymously with "purely functional". Functional means just made by applying and composing functions, and react UI is created exactly like that. There is an awesome algebraic effects proposal[1], which will hopefully will be added to JavaScript one day, then react will make use of it to become purely functional.
1: https://github.com/macabeus/js-proposal-algebraic-effects

String.prototype.trimStart

1 4 5.6 JavaScript

ES2019 spec-compliant String.prototype.trimStart shim

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