From Hero To Zero: The JavaScript Open Source Effect

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From Hero To Zero: The JavaScript Open Source Effect

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Excited about contributing to open source until discovering it's written in JavaScript? Classic developer mood swing! From "I'm gonna change the world" to "nevermind, I'd rather slam my keyboard against the wall" in 0.2 seconds. JavaScript went from being that quirky browser toy to somehow taking over the entire development ecosystem. Now we're all stuck with package.json files larger than our actual code and 47,000 dependencies just to center a div. The enthusiasm drain is real - nothing kills your coding passion quite like realizing you'll need to understand someone else's JS spaghetti code with 15 different design patterns and zero comments.

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