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Because ZMQ is vastly better managed from a human POV. The energy required to make a project like this succeed surpasses the individual.

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I think that's the important insight behind the success of ZMQ. Pieter Hintjens understood that a software library had a social as well as a technical context. ZMQ was built to be a delight to work with, not just a technical achievement. I have lots of respect for Sústrik, but I get the impression that he's willing to sacrifice everything else to have the right implementation.

Really, I think it takes both a Hintjens and a Sústrik to make something great. (Or a Lennon and a McCartney, a Jobs and a Wosniack, a Rodgers and a Hart.) There's a tension between giving people something with integrity, and giving people something they'll love.

After reading a lot of writing by both Hintjens and Sústrik I came to the same conclusion. It's such a shame they fell out, I feel like with a little compromise on both sides they could have come to a workable place. There would have been heads butting and voices being raised (figuratively) but a lot of great work can be done in a place like that. The problem is that it's tiring to fight those battles on a daily basis, and it gets old really fast.

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