[xerxes901]

In the specific case of confluent-kafka-go I’ve had to make extensive use of the second F. Trying to get the major improvements I’ve made into upstream has been… challenging.

Of course that F comes with a substantial maintenance cost. I’ve moved onto other projects internally at work and still every month or two I’ll get roped in to deal with some confluent-kafka-go releng issue or some such.

Tried giving them money too but confluent were pretty explicit with us that go was a low priority client library for them. I guess I’m not really saying anything other than I agree with everyone else in this thread, there’s no magic answer, only tradeoffs.