I agree with him. The typescript community is very unprofessional for going around spamming repos because some project they don't use or contribute too has removed their favorite language from the project.

Believe it or not, but JS vs TS really comes down to personal preference. Turbo is for client side JS and it used in a Ruby framework. Why is it so surprising that Ruby programmers want their other code built in a dynamic language?

If you work decades in a dynamic language you get good at maintaining, debugging, and developing in dynamic languages.

It's YouTuber clowns marshalling their fanbase of teenage kids who quite literally do not have fully developed brains yet. Very embarrassing indeed.

Developer drama on twitter was always tiring but it's gotten so much worse since direct financial incentives for high engagement came into play

Standard behaviour of a Youtube influencer.

I think some of the vitriol hurled was over the top, especially given that folks can just fork the project and move on -- isn't that the whole point of OSS? If it were a closed source product it wouldn't have even necessitated much of an announcement. Disregarding the specifics of who worked on this, I think this sort of reaction can only be discouraging to OSS maintainers as a whole (much as I agree that the change wasn't handled great).

I don't remember Svelte getting nearly as much blowback when they removed TypeScript from that project.

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