The Frontier in Open Source
https://medium.com/@ztellman/standing-in-the-shadow-of-giants-9ac52f8b4051
Great post exploring the narratives and dynamics around OS projects and communities.
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I'm super impressed by how many lint rules can be implemented with just eslint's no-restricted-syntax and selectors. Example:
{
selector: "ExportNamedDeclaration[declaration=null][source=null]",
message: "Add `export` directly to the function instead of a block export."
}
On the challenge of writing accurate source spans on Unicode source code: https://reedmullanix.com/posts/unicode-source-spans.html
Also (see footnotes) a fair number of LSP clients assume UTF-8 despite early versions of LSP mandating UTF-16!
Are there any package managers that treat changelogs as a first class concept?
I end up looking for a CHANGELOG.md or a CHANGES.txt in the source code repository every time. The lack of standard prevents package hosting services being able to show changes.