[wk_end]

Very often when I’m digging around GitHub Issues because of some bug or quirk or insanity in the JS ecosystem (which is often) I see someone spout the worst possible take - often being kind of a jerk about it - and when I look to see who’s responsible, very very often, ljharb’s name pops up. Often.

Dogpiling on someone deep in an HN comments tree isn’t exactly the classiest thing but…never having interacted with him myself, I’ve been harbouring this low-grade antipathy towards him - nothing unhealthy, just a groan whenever I see his name on GH - for years now, and it’s cathartic and almost gratifying, given his prominence in the community, to feel seen like this. Thank you.

[runarberg]

I was doing some snooping around and found this earlier discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37602923 from September 2023 (234 points, 110 comments), which I had missed at the time, very related to this current subthread, and includes posts such as these (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37604635).

I think we as a community really need to have a conversation about ljharb and his role in the future of our industry. If he was only a library maintainer, that would be one thing, we could just move on, find workarounds, alternatives, etc. But his involvement in TC-39 makes him one of our rulers in a non-democratic structure. That makes this different.