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I explicitly state 2020. Activity picked up in March. Use GitHub search filters and it’s more apparent. Activity graphs can be deceiving, it’s extremely easy to look busy. Actually…

The Rome license will stay MIT.

I've been keeping the core contributor team updated on the funding process since December. We've also been publicly speaking about it in the Rome Discord server too. I posted about…

Supplemental services that integrate with the tool. Think code quality monitoring, error reporting, and core enhancements like a remote cache. There's a lot we're going to be exper…

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24094377 (first release) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22430682 (open source) Nothing has materially changed…

TypeScript is a frontend language. "Frontend" is the category of languages we plan on supporting. It doesn't say anything about your usage of those languages. Where you run the cod…

Depends on what it is I think. We discussed the idea of "expansion packs" which would enable certain funtionality as a sort of "limited config" hack. https://github.com/romefronten…

It's both.

Thanks! Yeah, it is, at least for a while since it will take a very long time to reach expected maturity. You can adopt as many or as little pieces as you want. The idea is that on…

It's a linter so you don't need to ask any of those questions. Future usage as a bundler isn't dependent on any decision to use it as a linter.

I spoke in this post about how rushing into a plugin system hurt the longevity of Babel and it's ability to innovate. We aren't going to make the same mistake again. Rome will like…

The ecosystem is already fragmented and dueling. When it says it replaces those tools it means it aims to replace the functionality of those tools, not make them obsolete. Rome bei…

It does. And it's a risk not keeping up with their pace of development. Supporting those "compilers" is just supporting their syntax, which both fortunately already have very good …

The claim of no dependencies isn't there as some grandiose statement about reduction of complexity, it's there to describe how self contained the project is and our ability to chan…

The TypeScript type checker is only used to type check the Rome source code. The compiler is not used at all.

Considering this is just a source code dump and call for possible contributors I'm disappointed it was even posted to Hacker News. Rome is not ready at all for public consumption. …

> Why would they hide their commit history? I'm the only author at the moment. The project started off years ago as a side project without any commit history, and what little histo…

I'm skeptical too (I'm the author of Rome). I know it can be at least performance neutral compared to existing JavaScript tools which is the baseline for most people. However I do …

See the fourth paragraph. > This shift naturally raises questions about the rest of Facebook's open source projects. Many of our popular projects will keep the BSD + Patents licens…

Hey! I'm Sebastian McKenzie (@kittens on GitHub) and I'm the lead develop on Yarn at Facebook. We initially used a method similar to ied when we first started experimenting with in…