• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Ding ding ding

    Open source code is usually quite nice and well done because money pressure is way less of an issue and everyone knows people will be looking at your code

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      1 day ago

      If you look at the casual code that I have shamelessly made public on my GitLab, that might change your mind on that.

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      2 days ago

      That’s probably also why development is usually really slow and most maintainers can’t keep up/give up.

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          17 hours ago

          Also what I’ve heard from open-source project maintainers, once a project gets popular, the flood of feature requests is neverending. (Something I’m sure I contributed to over the years 🫣) And especially in cases of feature requests with niche usefulness or mismatching vision, they can sap developer morale.