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by williamdclt 877 days ago
I've had to reread, I was certain I missed something. But no, this is entirely conspiratorial speculation without any basis _or_ even without any point?

If at least they explicitly put forward a theory like "it's russian influence to slow down western digital development" it would have some internal consistency, but no. They suppose it's russian influence (again, without basis) without any theory of _why_ Russia would care about an inconsequential CSS-related lib. Shrug.
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briantakita 877 days ago
> any theory of _why_ Russia would care about an inconsequential CSS-related lib

Most likely he didn't want to deal with the maintenance burden of CSS-in-JS or React.

I must be Russian because I don't want to deal with that either. Those darn Russians...

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_5hxt 877 days ago
Major shifts in behavior from the lead developer does not concern you? Overthrowing the dependencies used and opting in for more experimental and not as battletested JS frameworks does not alarm you?

Going against a strong personal opinion after stagnation of development and a complete pivot on multiple levels is normal to you?

Shall I mention mainframes still run COBOL? Should I introduce the latest version of this library to achieve the same? You do know it entails more chance of something wrong happening, and yes the developer is Russian, didn't we have an advisory against Kaspersky?

Why would a repository with six figure stars be negligible and Kaspersky not? Please read other comments as well. Thanks for your perspective and have a great weekend.

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mrguyorama 877 days ago
Your entire operating theory is that a man you don't even know, a software developer, changed how he feels about software design?

>Shall I mention mainframes still run COBOL? Should I introduce the latest version of this library to achieve the same?

What the heck are you even trying to say here?

>Going against a strong personal opinion after stagnation of development and a complete pivot on multiple levels is normal to you

I mean, maybe his country launching itself into war and mining it's population for bodies to throw at Ukranian bullets and most educated or valuable people fleeing made him reevaluate his feelings on lots of things? Do you have any actual concerns about the code, or are you honestly trying to draw some crazy conspiracy between "A library went a direction I don't like" and "This might be an attack against my work"?

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