Contributions being mostly from a single developer lends further credence to that idea, because it implies everything is fueled by one person's relatively opinionated vision and taste.
Contributions being mostly from a single developer lends further credence to that idea, because it implies everything is fueled by one person's relatively opinionated vision and taste.
A single(-ish) author is the strongest smell for a library. I've been burned countless times by a project's "BDFL" moving on to something else. Sometimes a new maintainer will take over, but it's rare.
Low commit count also suggests unresponsiveness to issues that are filed, especially for a TypeScript or JavaScript project.
This thread single-handedly convinced me not to start a Solid project.
SolidJS (Ryan mostly) is very responsive, so the low count is more a sign that there are not many issues which require code changes in the first place. Which is good!
>Sometimes a new maintainer will take over, but it's rare.
SolidJS really doesn't need a full-time maintainer at this point. One or more community members fixing severe bugs and keeping it up to date is plenty enough.
Yeah exactly 7 years tomorrow. Wow time flies.