Alright, you be you. I'll never knowingly use your code though.
Maybe I'm an old fart, but to me (and others) a lack of professionalism betrays a lack of seriousness and concern for downstream users.
Maybe I'm an old fart, but to me (and others) a lack of professionalism betrays a lack of seriousness and concern for downstream users.
re: downstream users, I'm extremely concerned w/backwards compatibility (htmx 1.x is IE11 compatible and will be supported in perpetuity, as is intercooler.js, its predecessor), the library is dependency free, it works with any kind of back-end you'd like and doesn't demand any particular type of build system.
The library is BSD-0 licensed to maximize its usefulness and I do a deep dive on the implementation here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=javGxN-h9VQ
I've written a book on htmx and the broader ideas of hypermedia you can read for free here:
and I have a series of essays on hypermedia and related topics here:
I also wrote this:
it is, unfortunately, silly
Lets not be literal but also lets not ignore the clues.
How those wonderful technological babel towers coming from all those very serious professionals at FAANG and adjacent often with yearly marketing budgets bigger than your net worth have been treating you? Funny thing, many of those cool frameworks seem to get "deprecated" when the authors ( very professional and serious people ) get promoted or leave the company.
At least they tend "sunset" the libs and frameworks in a very professional and concern way.
On a less facetious note: Your "fears" are valid and common, but you are so focused on the package design you're missing the actual product.
It's a heuristic, but one that has served me well.
Professionalism is what you expect when you pay someone money. If we started calling things we don't like 'unprofessional', then the fact that you find fault with someone who is pouring their own time and money into giving away software to the world for free, could be called 'unprofessional'.