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by X6S1x6Okd1st 1474 days ago
One of the pains I've experienced over ~1 decade as a professional SWE is that a lot of dependencies aren't really maintained. Many of the times I've diagnosed an issue in one of our dependencies only to find that the maintainer isn't really present or interested in upstreaming.

Many companies are uninterested in forking and maintaining their own version either