> That's nice, but lets be clear here: Standard.JS is not building […] [a] seriously valuable project that saves companies thousands of dollars.
This is quite debatable and hard to measure, given the problem that Standard solves. As an anecdote, I just started a new TypeScript-based project a few days ago and I’ve spent the past few days mostly dealing with configuration. That’s perfectly fine to me for a personal project where I’d like to decide every aspect of the configuration, but let’s say this was for a fast-moving startup, it’s probably a smarter idea, for most projects, to simply adopt Standard et al. and call it a day. Practically speaking, if you consider a software engineer’s salary and other important factors, I don’t think it’s fair, or accurate, to claim that Standard doesn’t save companies thousands of dollars; it almost certainly does
This is quite debatable and hard to measure, given the problem that Standard solves. As an anecdote, I just started a new TypeScript-based project a few days ago and I’ve spent the past few days mostly dealing with configuration. That’s perfectly fine to me for a personal project where I’d like to decide every aspect of the configuration, but let’s say this was for a fast-moving startup, it’s probably a smarter idea, for most projects, to simply adopt Standard et al. and call it a day. Practically speaking, if you consider a software engineer’s salary and other important factors, I don’t think it’s fair, or accurate, to claim that Standard doesn’t save companies thousands of dollars; it almost certainly does