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by coldtea 4084 days ago
>Are you saying you "got" what a project like angular that has more than 1000 contributors "didn't get"?

Sorry but that's a BS argument if I ever saw one. It's basically an arguemtn from authority and/or popularity.

Something could have 100000 contributors and still be crap and they could still "not get" that it's crap.

JavaEE circa 2002-5 had all the enterprise world using it, tons of aftermarket companies, the best people at SUN and more. And yet, it was utter crap, and a few years later everybody admitted it and were ashamed to be associated with it.

Or take PHP. I'm not against it, but it has tons of contributors (tens of thousands if we count the whole core ecosystem) and it's widely considered a "fractal of bad design".