Nicholas C. Zakas
@humanwhocodes.com
Human who codes. Creator of @eslint.org. Author. Speaker. Advisor. Coach. GitHub Star.
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Blog: https://humanwhocodes.com
Coaching: https://humanwhocodes.com/coaching
People seem to be assuming lost sponsorships means sponsors are unhappy. That's not the case. It mostly comes down to not having the funds allocated vs. intentionally stopping.
We need YOU to advocate inside of your company to allocate these funds. Some tips:
humanwhocodes.com/blog/2021/05...
We need YOU to advocate inside of your company to allocate these funds. Some tips:
humanwhocodes.com/blog/2021/05...
How to talk to your company about sponsoring an open source project - Human Who Codes
Sustainable open source funding begins and ends with companies providing money for the value they're receiving.
humanwhocodes.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
People seem to be assuming lost sponsorships means sponsors are unhappy. That's not the case. It mostly comes down to not having the funds allocated vs. intentionally stopping.
We need YOU to advocate inside of your company to allocate these funds. Some tips:
humanwhocodes.com/blog/2021/05...
We need YOU to advocate inside of your company to allocate these funds. Some tips:
humanwhocodes.com/blog/2021/05...
I mean, it's possible something will catch up to ESLint, I'm just not seeing that in the download counts this year.
npmtrends.com/@biomejs/bio...
npmtrends.com/@biomejs/bio...
@biomejs/biome vs eslint vs oxlint | npm trends
Comparing trends for @biomejs/biome 2.3.8 which has 3,980,108 weekly downloads and 22,634 GitHub stars vs. eslint 9.39.1 which has 70,958,549 weekly downloads and 26,687 GitHub stars vs. oxlint 1.32.0...
npmtrends.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I mean, it's possible something will catch up to ESLint, I'm just not seeing that in the download counts this year.
npmtrends.com/@biomejs/bio...
npmtrends.com/@biomejs/bio...
Yes, I’m aware of the numbers. I’m also aware that ESLint’s numbers continue to grow and it’s not like money is flooding from us to other projects. The sponsors we lost are just not sponsoring anything.
I’m pretty skeptical of the mass migration you’re predicting.
I’m pretty skeptical of the mass migration you’re predicting.
December 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Yes, I’m aware of the numbers. I’m also aware that ESLint’s numbers continue to grow and it’s not like money is flooding from us to other projects. The sponsors we lost are just not sponsoring anything.
I’m pretty skeptical of the mass migration you’re predicting.
I’m pretty skeptical of the mass migration you’re predicting.
Nope. There’s a vanishingly small uptick in Biome and Oxlint, and it’s not like we see sponsorship money flowing in that direction instead.
December 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Nope. There’s a vanishingly small uptick in Biome and Oxlint, and it’s not like we see sponsorship money flowing in that direction instead.
Reposted by Nicholas C. Zakas
Something similar happened recently with @preactjs.com and they ended up updating their Code of Conduct to be more explicit about transparency in LLM usage: github.com/preactjs/pre...
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Something similar happened recently with @preactjs.com and they ended up updating their Code of Conduct to be more explicit about transparency in LLM usage: github.com/preactjs/pre...
Ooh thanks for sharing this. Great idea!
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Ooh thanks for sharing this. Great idea!
I should note that Gemini 2.5 Pro came up with the original pre-nano banana.
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I should note that Gemini 2.5 Pro came up with the original pre-nano banana.