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"And then there were people adding modules. I thought to myself, this projet is done now. So wrong."

Seriously why are we as a community still entertaining those outlandish statements and attitudes? If you heard that sentence as a non-tech person, you'd swear modules is a computer virus or something, that it's so inherently bad that it's not even worth discussing.

Props to Ryan for his amazing work, but come on let's try to be civil and respectful here.

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Thats not what he meant. He was not saying "People are adding modules, modules are bad, this project is ruined, [modules are] so wrong." He was saying, "People are creating modules, people are building on top of my work, this project is COMPLETE. [I was] so wrong."

I'm glad you elaborated on this because I also interpreted it as an overly negative attitude towards modules. He was definitely a little nervous while talking!

Ah my bad, completely misunderstood what he was saying.

Thanks for providing context.

i'm not sure what you mean by "outlandish statements and attitudes".

when he said "this project is done now" my takeaway was that he didn't anticipate the popularity of node. and "so wrong" was him acknowledging that he was very obviously mistaken.

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