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Offtopic, but regarding the downvotes - I have been using FB front-end projects for several years, and today I see them as _the_ gold standard for a supportive, mature, well-governed, and consistent FoSS ecosystem. I struggle to recall any snarkiness, cynicism, or even rudeness. I'm sure it happens, but I closely monitor several of their projects and the behavior is mostly exemplary even without considering the size of the user-base. Besides near-exemplary FoSS behavior, FB engineers must solve problems well beyond what most industry will ever attempt, and then present some of their solutions on a silver platter for the rest of us. Of course, it's not perfect, and sometimes confusing, and sometimes over-engineering, but I would personally pay $xx,000 per year to use any library of the same standard as they give out for free. So when I see a callous comment that takes nothing to write and could cause someone to feel degraded about their vast contributions, I downvote. It's not about safe places, it's about professional respect and courtesy. |
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