Sustaining Open Source - Nicholas Zakas (ESLint)

On today's episode, Sarah Dayan discusses open source sustainability with Nicholas Zakas, creator of ESLint. ESLint is a widely popular JavaScript linter with a giant ecosystem of third-party plugins. If you have a JavaScript project with a continuous integration, you are certainly using ESLint and you do not want it to fail. Nicholas is also a seasoned author who wrote several books about JavaScript since the early 2000s and more blog posts that you can probably afford to read.A recurring meme is that all modern digital infrastructure somehow depends on a project that some random person has been thanklessly maintaining for decades. Sustaining open source projects that support countless enterprise products has been a particularly hot topic in tech for the last couple of years.- How do you actively maintain a project that others rely on but doesn’t bring revenue?- How do you deal with stress and fatigue?- Is the promise of open source still holding?Nicholas Zakas: @slicknet / humanwhocodes.comSarah Dayan: @frontstuff_io / sarahdayan.devESLint: @geteslint / eslint.orgAlgolia: @algolia / algolia.com