+1 Ideas should be judged on their merit.
-Terence Bandoian
On 10/10/2018 5:12 AM, Andrea Giammarchi wrote:
Daniel Ehrenberg wrote [1] the following:
> I'd recommend starting with making a library which does this, and
gathering broad developer feedback, before proposing for standardization.
it was a genuine extra answer to the question:
> do you think [for] this [proposal] is worth going through the process?
Now here the issue: if you don't have thousand twitter followers and
you don't work for Google, Microsoft or Facebook, the "gathering
broader feedback" is just a wall that every developer with a good idea
but not an easy way to reach some broader feedback will hit.
I have libraries that got few stars on GitHub, I haven't actively
promoted them, but are downloaded 13 million times per month on npm,
yet nobody cares, and most don't even know such library exists.
I have other ideas never seen before that will never see the "standard
light" because either people after me overlapped with their version of
my idea but are closer to standard bodies (working for Google, as
example) or I have consistent lower reach than united groups (googles
re-tweeting googlers stuff or similar).
Bear in mind I'm not necessarily pointing fingers to anyone, and I
believe it's normal that most followed companies with they devrel
people and their team would promote their ideas as a united group, but
telling people proposing new standards that these will hardly be
considered until there is broader community interest seems elitist for
no reasons and an unnecessary, or unbreakable wall, for newcomers.
As summary, I don't even like that specific Array#pluck proposal, but
it would be great if this ML could be open to everyone, not just those
with stars on GitHub and many followers.
I know Daniel wrote that in good faith, but having an official
statement written somewhere about this might be less discouraging for
newcomers.
Best Regards.
[1] https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/issues/1324#issuecomment-428503827
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