| Let me give you a data point from a neutral perspective (I have never heard of you or JSON5). These were not haters. They in fact went our of their way to give arguments supporting their verdict, and in some cases even constructive suggestions like "make that a preprocessor instead". Your piece does not make you look like the smartest guy in the room, vindicated by success and adoring fans. It makes you look like someone who confuses internet fame points with something that actually means something. Like a sore loser who needed to convince themselves that they really are the smartest person in the room. The internet is a trap. No matter how bad your idea is, you will always find people who think it's great. Just look how many people Alex Jones found who agreed with his Sandy Hook ideas. Don't go looking for fans. Go looking for people who disagree, as they will help you improve your skills and grow as a person. If you were actually as good as you apparently think you are, you wouldn't be wasting time writing text like this. You wouldn't need to. Your work would speak for itself. I don't remember Mozart or Einstein lament about their haters. |
Someone online told me another library (released after mine) was doing the same thing.
Turns out other library has very obvious bugs, is 20x times slower, but it has 8x more downloads.
Yep downloads are not a metric of quality.