Nicholas Zakas

I was trying out...

one of the Vault tools, and I went and I found a problem and I opened an issue on the GitHub repo.

And again, it just sat there for months, just no response at all until very, very late.

I mean, again, maybe by the end of the year, somebody was like, oh, this is fixed in the latest version.

It's just, I don't know what's happening over there.

And it just, I don't think that JavaScript registries are good business fundamentally.

And I think that, you know, NPM Inc.

figured that out and glad for them that they were able to get out.

and get the registry into a place where it would at least be up and running.

I feel like JSR basically the same thing happened, where JSR was being funded primarily through Deno, even though they wanted to make it more of a community thing.

But fundamentally, they came up with it, they were running it,

They had it on their infrastructure.

But they are a startup.

They need to figure out ways to make money.

And JSR was just a way to spend money.

I mean, it's nice.

It's a nice gift to the ecosystem.

But they still need to figure out a way to turn a profit to pay back investors.

So the chances, I think, that JSR is going to grow up into something else is probably pretty slim.

And like you, I was pretty excited about it.