zloirock/core-js on Hacker News

…interesting to see the uptick in stars if any. The real gold in this thread however is the link to https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02... Seriously, it's a wild (and heart-breaking) story about js-core maintainer…

comment by KolmogorovComp · 2026-08-04 · in MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt

Just use the polyfill https://github.com/zloirock/core-js#jsonparse-source-text-ac...

comment by hajile · 2025-03-27 · in A love letter to the CSV format

…I read the story (the link in that post is old) and I ended up giving him the benefit of the doubt. https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02... Also in that post is that Babel didn't fork it. That's another thing to…

comment by benatkin · 2024-12-25 · in A new learning experience on MDN

…library not a service like polyfill but with almost the same goal, is tired of open source as well https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02...

comment by hollowturtle · 2024-06-26 · in Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites

…who had to temporarily abandon it due to lack of funds, is Denis Pushkarev (zloirock) and core.js ( https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02... ). The majority of OSS projects have most of their contributions by one…

comment by armchairhacker · 2023-12-23 · in Emacs' helm is maintained by one maintaner for 11 years long

…cross-platform donated slush fund to boot (~200k USD across Pateron, Open Collective, Bitcoin). https://github.com/zloirock/core-js

comment by dumbo-octopus · 2023-12-01 · in Users are massively giving their 1-star reviews to AdBlocker

…Rather blatant offloading of costs. This has been rehashed several time (core-js recently https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02... ). The gist of it is: Companies are not going to pay if they don't have to. That is…

comment by mnau · 2023-07-04 · in libjpeg-turbo 3.0 has been released, and why there may never be a 3.1

…ads. Heck, NPM of all things had ads until they sent out a community-wide request to stop that: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/635 The problem isn't the permissibility of a web browser. It's that we live in a capitalistic…

comment by rchaud · 2023-04-24 · in I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (2018)

…that do will happily roll their own hosted repositories that provide little to no guarantees. [0] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02...

comment by prisonguard · 2023-04-18 · in Astral

Yes, ask for money. Don't end up like the corejs maintainer. ( https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02... ) It's ok to be paid for work if you want to.

comment by viraptor · 2023-04-05 · in Tell HN: When is it okay to ask for money as an open source maintainer?

…websites. [0] People (and also big-techs) just won't pay for anything they can get for free. [0]: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02...

comment by maxloh · 2023-03-15 · in Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

…cycle, I could receive a fair portion of donation revenue. Something similar to residuals [2] [1] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual_(entertainment_indu...

comment by clarkdale · 2023-02-26 · in Please help improve Magit

…> and where did I write that it was not in the zone of action of the pedestrian crossing sign? > https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/1179#issuecomment... There is also no reliable information whether the accident happened inside a…

comment by glorken · 2023-02-15 · in So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)

…unpolyfillable feature). And there's the huge issue of the entire world relying on just one guy: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02...

comment by dmitriid · 2023-02-14 · in C++23 “Pandemic Edition” is complete

Plus there's this if you really want to support old browsers: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/ce52fdc735c5c809c9e...

comment by benatkin · 2023-02-13 · in <3 Deno

Gotta say, the comments on this core-js issue are very illustrative of the article. https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548

comment by int_19h · 2022-03-21 · in FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects

Here’s a polyfill for the JS URL() interface which should give you a taste: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/272ac1b4515c5cfbf34... (I tried finding the one in Firefox but I couldn’t actually work out where it started, this one is…

comment by wolfgang42 · 2021-09-25 · in In search of the perfect URL validation regex (2010)

…on Github. I'm surprised he's not been banned yet for some of the things he's said to people. https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/936#issuecomment-...

comment by junon · 2021-07-31 · in Do Developers Read Compiler Error Messages? [pdf]

How about not polluting build logs with stuff like this from the CoreJS developer: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/708 I'll read the compiler errors when I don't have to scroll past solicitations for employment.

comment by phist_mcgee · 2021-07-31 · in Do Developers Read Compiler Error Messages? [pdf]

The maintainer announced he was back on 25 Oct 2020: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/874

comment by fagnerbrack · 2021-01-29 · in What happens when d maintainer of a lib with 26m downloads/week goes to prison?

https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548#issuecomment-...

comment by saagarjha · 2020-08-18 · in Dependency

…page for this project. [1] This is not a community driven project. It's a one man show. -- [1] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/graphs/contributors

comment by Strom · 2020-03-25 · in CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any official fork?

…isn't necessarily dead; another contributor who merged a PR 2 days ago just posted a short update: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/767#issuecomment-... > Stop spam & panic! I have rules for this repo and i have some time for…

comment by ariabuckles · 2020-03-25 · in CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any official fork?

To add to this, he was actually asking for a job to help with the legal fees from this incident. https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548#issuecomment-...

comment by jakear · 2020-03-25 · in CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any official fork?

…for polyfilling by Babel. The author was previously know for asking for a job in npm install logs ( https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548 ), and recently seems to have gone to jail for vehicular manslaughter, leaving the project…

comment by saagarjha · 2020-03-25 · in CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any official fork?

isaacs responded below and clarified that he doesn’t feel core-js is in violation of npm’s new policy https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/635#issuecomment-... ICYM npm’s new policy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20838078

comment by switz · 2019-08-31 · in core-js maintainer threatens millions of users due to new post-install ad policy

…board system so yeah maybe dialing it back a bit is a good idea. Thank you for using core-js ( https://github.com/zloirock/core-js ) for polyfilling JavaScript standard library! The project needs your help! Please consider supporting of…

comment by lootsauce · 2019-08-31 · in NPM Bans Terminal Ads

…in the following GitHub issue (since closed without resolution): Get rid of postinstall message https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548 I believe some irate users reported it to NPM, which could have triggered or contributed to the…

comment by lioeters · 2019-08-30 · in NPM Bans Terminal Ads

…[3] https://arslan.io/2018/10/09/taking-an-indefinite-sabbatical... [4] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548 [5] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548#issuecomment-... [6] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/co

comment by miguelmota · 2019-08-29 · in Recap of the `funding` experiment

…also uses the term experiment , it did already render npm as a space for advertisement. [0] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548

comment by aastronaut · 2019-08-25 · in Standard JS: npm install funding

Previously on CLI ads: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548

comment by sequoia · 2019-08-24 · in Standard JS: npm install funding

more info here: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues?q=is%3Aissue+spam...

comment by jhabdas · 2019-07-23 · in Fund me and I'll remove the ads from core-JS

https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548 has some interesting discussion and context around this, including a response from the author: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548#issuecomment-...

comment by pimterry · 2019-07-03 · in Popular Node packages now comes with job announcements

…a runtime library or importing 'core-js/fn/array/is-array' from the wonderfully modular core-js: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js Although for this particular strawman I think `foo.constructor === Array` is probably enough.

comment by woogley · 2017-12-18 · in Bundle Phobia: find the cost of adding an npm package to your bundle

…in the future, today :) Also, thrown in core-js[1] while you're at it. [0] https://babeljs.io/ [1] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js

comment by paol · 2017-02-22 · in ECMAScript 2016+ in Firefox

…abeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-runtime/#technical-... 2: https://facebook.github.io/regenerator/ 3: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js 4: https://github.com/babel/babel-preset-env

comment by mhink · 2016-12-07 · in Announcing TypeScript 2.1

…because of https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4162 (more detail and test case in https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/78 )

comment by Arnavion · 2015-09-04 · in Node.js v4 Release Timeline

…you can use the new Array functions, Promises, Symbols, full JS collections, iterators, etc. [1] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js

comment by zghst · 2015-06-17 · in The Final ES2015 (ES6) Draft

…which is (I believe) a better and more exhaustive shim library than es6-shim and the others. [1] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js

comment by lobster_johnson · 2015-05-29 · in ES6 in Depth: Destructuring