Weren't a couple guys at a Python conference fired for telling a joke in a line that someone else overheard? I mean the backlash was just as bad.. but that seems pretty similar.
That's one scandal I can think can of in such a large community.
Node had the "pronoun" scandal and the power struggle between strongloop and joyent.
The left-pad one which broke a ridiculous number of packages.
Crockford removed as speaker from some conference.
Project was forked at least 2 times IO.js vs node.js vs Ayo.js
While not a single scandal I have noticed in personal interactions while interviewing candidates, conferences, and online in forums that node.js devs seem to be very excited and confident and that's good, but also they don't know what they are talking about. That combination doesn't come off too well. That's why my "immaturity" comment. Maybe I am wrong and just happened to find all the bad apples by accident.
Node had the "pronoun" scandal and the power struggle between strongloop and joyent.
The left-pad one which broke a ridiculous number of packages.
Crockford removed as speaker from some conference.
Project was forked at least 2 times IO.js vs node.js vs Ayo.js
While not a single scandal I have noticed in personal interactions while interviewing candidates, conferences, and online in forums that node.js devs seem to be very excited and confident and that's good, but also they don't know what they are talking about. That combination doesn't come off too well. That's why my "immaturity" comment. Maybe I am wrong and just happened to find all the bad apples by accident.