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by hazza1 8y ago

https://www.quora.com/Has-TJ-Holowaychuk-been-as-prolific-in-the-Golang-community-as-he-was-in-the-Node-js-community https://www.quora.com/Has-TJ-Holowaychuk-been-as-prolific-in... "my new goal is to live a better life. In the end open-source doesn’t pay the bills so it’s best to focus on other things if you can, or if you just enjoy the project then that’s cool."

malthejorgensen 8y ago
This. IMO he's still a "rockstar". It's just the Node and JS community that hypes everything disproportionally (they used to at least). The fact that he single-handedly built Apex (https://github.com/apex/apex https://github.com/apex/apex) show that he's still prolific, and a programmer of note. There's a similar story for Sindre Sorhus, who moved on from the JS community to Swift.
ilkkao 8y ago
He is active in Twitter: https://twitter.com/tjholowaychuk https://twitter.com/tjholowaychuk
yeahitslikethat 8y ago
It pays the bills for the business minded folks who sell it. Imagine any other industry of craftsman who worked countless hours building stuff that profited everyone but themselves while they complain about H1-B's taking their jobs. They give their work away for free while complaining someone else is willing to work for even less. And programmers are supposedly smart.