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The fate of “small” open source (nolanlawson.com)

submitted 2 months ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Does this guy know that a lot of people open-source code so that it might be useful for other people?

Not numbers of downloads or hoping to gain popularity, but to literally help the community.

I read other people’s open source code all the time to try and understand things. I can’t be the only one.

What a strange article. Can I not “pin” his repo at a specific version in my project, thus making it a stable dependency? If it’s small and readable, that’s just as good as writing it yourself. What is dying?

[–] iii@mander.xyz 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

so that it might be useful for other people?

Even that isn't necessary. I do it because I want to share cool things, even if they're not useful. The world didn't need another crossword puzzle creator, I just felt like writing one.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 months ago

Absolutely, “useful” is a broad term in this case.

It is always interesting to see how people implement things!