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I do appreciate your transparency, though I disagree with the sentiment that Iām arguing from a position of bad faith.
Itās a self-evident fact that the Babel team has not shown a moment of interest in lowering their role in the JavaScript ecosystem to anything short of kingmakers. Have a gander at their GitHub README and what do we see?[1]
- āBabel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript.ā Indefinitely.
- Over a dozen sponsor logos. An embarrassment of riches.
- A literal audio recording of a song in praise of the project.
The Babel team has a well documented history of their priorities[2], emphasizing the need for a modular approach that has no exit strategy[3]. At best, we have a case of accidental entrenchment and long term dependence on the Babel brewing as early as 2017![4]
Compare this infinite circus to the humble but popular Normalize.css, which has the express purpose to stop existing.[5]
If the Babel team wants to raise some money, they can start by putting a plan together that would codify an exit strategy. Itās certainly more noble than their current plan of barnacling on to every NPM packageā¦
- [1] https://github.com/babel/babel
- [2] https://github.com/babel/notes
- [3] https://github.com/babel/notes/blob/master/2016/2016-07/july...
- [4] https://github.com/babel/notes/blob/master/2017/2017-04/apri...
- [5] https://nicolasgallagher.com/about-normalize-css/
I do appreciate your transparency, though I disagree with the sentiment that Iām arguing from a position of bad faith.
Itās a self-evident fact that the Babel team has not shown a moment of interest in lowering their role in the JavaScript ecosystem to anything short of kingmakers. Have a gander at their GitHub README and what do we see?[1]
- āBabel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript.ā Indefinitely.
- Over a dozen sponsor logos. An embarrassment of riches.
- A literal audio recording of a song in praise of the project.
The Babel team has a well documented history of their priorities[2], emphasizing the need for a modular approach that has no exit strategy[3]. At best, we have a case of accidental entrenchment and long term dependence on the Babel brewing as early as 2017![4]
Compare this infinite circus to the humble but popular Normalize.css, which has the express purpose to stop existing.[5]
If the Babel team wants to raise some money, they can start by putting a plan together that would codify an exit strategy. Itās certainly more noble than their current plan of barnacling on to every NPM packageā¦
- [1] https://github.com/babel/babel
- [2] https://github.com/babel/notes
- [3] https://github.com/babel/notes/blob/master/2016/2016-07/july...
- [4] https://github.com/babel/notes/blob/master/2017/2017-04/apri...
- [5] https://nicolasgallagher.com/about-normalize-css/
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