There are many services that people only use as long as they're free or cheap, but stop using when a price tag appears or the price increases.
Is it heresy now to propose that Babel maybe isn't THAT valuable?
Is it heresy now to propose that Babel maybe isn't THAT valuable?
I'm no really involved in JS, but many people talk very highly of Babel, and I'm going to guess the actual efficiency increase is more than 0.1% for a lot of companies.
$100k/monthly is perhaps 10-25 devs (depending on where it's located).
So just $5/month sounds like a spectacular ROI to me; and 5,000 companies doing this already adds up to $50k/month.
And that's just Babel, not talking about all the other tools and libraries people use for free; people build literally their entire businesses on stuff like Python. Surely Python provides value, no? Yet how much money flows back to Python from the average business?
Still good ROI though.
I’d much rather plunge money into any competing compiler to get it feature compatible.
The problem is that they are very few. With tools like CRA, vue-cli, angualr cli, babel is even less visible.