Take as long as you need to ensure software quality. A month without a release isn't a big deal and whomever needs a specific feature can offer to contribute or build themselves.
Node has 4-6 weeks without a meaningful release (other than security stuff) pretty much every December. I think the criticism in the article is unfounded and whomever needed/wanted a release should have asked first instead of writing an "angry" blog post.
(I'm a Node.js maintainer)
What is Node getting every 4-6 weeks that makes it noteworthy when it doesn't?
Text imports (experimental), native addon ESM support, blob textStream(), ReadableStreamTee, byob for readFile, better event loop monitoring and lots of security fixes as well as more minor bug fixes and improvements. (Last 4-6 weeks)
Author here: I don't need or want another Bun release or an NPM release or anything like that. Like I very clearly say in the article I just got chatting with a peer about the Bun rewrite and I decided to take a look.
I'm consistently skeptical about new tech whether it is NoSQL or Blockchain or Serverless. Some of the things I'm skeptical about fail and some succeed.
The bun Port is a phenomenal engineering achievement that would have taken a team of people over a year or two to deliver previously - look at the TypeScript port for example (and they had llms).
The fact it's taking a while to release is still insanely fast. I'm sure they may be some bumps.
Being skeptical is good and some stuff succeeds and some doesn't - but building tools is still fun and cool, whether it's useful or widely adopted or not :)
The initial "10 days and $165k" was still a tad optimistic dontchathink?
That’s a great approach. No matter what you will always find a reason to be positively surprised!
What are some of your favorite tools or services that you adopted in the past few years?
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