[martinky24]

It's an open source project. If a developer wants to go out of their way to make a really cool improvement, goes through the approval process, has a clean implementation that doesn't add any backwards incompatibilities, why do you care? This isn't some private company where management tells people what to do and they have to do it.

People are so out of touch with how OSS, and the volunteer maintainers that operate it, work. It's a shame. The sense of entitlement in a subset of the userbase ("Why aren't they fixing MY issues RIGHT NOW!") is mindblowing.

[9967d2cad_askhn]

No. You’re missing one constituent part of a for-profit corporate-backed language platform. You cannot just step in the ring with Ali because you think you can box.

Politics, other forces, compellation will emerge as a stronghold barrier to your meritocratical hopes and dreams.