alt Hacker NewsSome of the burnout no doubt being due to the catastrophizing of every decision by the community and the extreme rhetoric used across the board.
Great to see people wanting to get involved with the project, though. That’s the beauty of open source: if it aggravates you, you can fix it.
As an example of this, i remember a huge debate at the time about `await foo()` vs `foo().await` syntax. The community was really divided on that one, and there was a lot of drama because that's the kind of design decision you can't really walk back from.
Retrospectively, i think everyone is satisfied with the adopted syntax.