Is Express.js dying?
The public airing of their dirty laundry - especially the snark from so many of the participants - would kill it in my mind. There&#x27;s no good reason to have this &quot;open and transparent&quot; conversation devolve into &quot;let me bitch about IBM here, but don&#x27;t bitch back at me, keep to IBM-only channels&quot;. It&#x27;s all very childish. The whole thing should&#x27;ve been on the IBM back channels until they got their shit together and could agree on some messaging, and if the maintainer didn&#x27;t agree with the messaging or how long it was taking to come up with it, simply fork it into the expressjs org <i>and leave</i>. Shouting out &quot;I&#x27;m leaving! I&#x27;m going! I really mean it this time!&quot; just seems like ... a child running away from &quot;mean ol&#x27; parents&quot; rather than an open source leader whose project work speaks volumes. It&#x27;s tragic to watch this train wreck that could&#x27;ve been avoided by both sides refusing to posture. Like my father used to say, &quot;shit or get off the pot, don&#x27;t keep debating out loud if you&#x27;re really going to do it.&quot;<p>Compare it to Linus&#x27; openly-hostile dictatorship, which is universally both reviled and excused by contributors, just for a moment: At least when it comes to Linux kernel, shit gets done; nobody has to question the commitment of the project&#x27;s stewards; and Linus hasn&#x27;t (that I recall) threatened to take his toys elsewhere.