# Story of @zloirock, core.js author

**URL:** <https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/story-of-zloirock-core-js-author/1197>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 20, 2023, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/story-of-zloirock-core-js-author/1197 "2023-02-20T09:31:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![abitrolly](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/abitrolly/32/845_2.png) [@abitrolly](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/abitrolly)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/story-of-zloirock-core-js-author/1197/1 "2023-02-20T09:31:15Z")

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Quote from the current README:

> Hi. I am (**[@zloirock](https://github.com/zloirock)**) a full-time open-source developer. I don’t like to write long posts, but it seems this is high time to do it. Initially, this post was supposed to be a post about the start of active development of the new major version of `core-js` and the roadmap (it was moved to [the second half](https://github.com/zloirock/core-js#roadmap)), however, due to recent events, became a really long post about many different things… I’m fucking tired. Free open-source software is fundamentally broken. I could stop working on this silently, but I want to give open-source one last chance.

The rest of the story:

> **[GitHub - zloirock/core-js: Standard Library](https://github.com/zloirock/core-js)**
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> Standard Library. Contribute to zloirock/core-js development by creating an account on GitHub.

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**Author:** ![abitrolly](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/abitrolly/32/845_2.png) [@abitrolly](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/abitrolly)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 5:04am UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/story-of-zloirock-core-js-author/1197/2 "2023-03-06T05:04:45Z")

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Here is some pretty solid advocacy by [NerdyDeedsLLC@github](https://github.com/NerdyDeedsLLC) in the thread, which is written for new JS kids on the block, but I would extend it to reach US congress(wo)men as well (my country, unfortunately, is a failure that can not solve such problems). Quoting it here for posterity.

> But you script kiddies that think being a quick-draw at loading NPM packages, and having a deft hand at finding what you need on StackOverflow have no clue how good you have it. I started coding in JS the _year it came out_, and NEVER STOPPED. I STILL do, to this day, nearly 30 years later. And yanno what? I STILL don’t know as much about the dark corners of the language as [@zloirock](https://github.com/zloirock) does.

> If it were MY call, we’d poach him and his family here to the US on EB-1A visas (the permanent-resident, so-called “Einstein Visas,” granted to foreign nationals deemed to hold “extraordinary talent” - same shit we got Einstein and Oppenheimer here on). I’m absolutely confident I could make an effective argument about how doing so could be viewed as a matter of national security.

> Send the man a fiver. Skip ONE coffee this month. Or hell, a twenty, and forego cheese on your burger a couple times, too. We REALLY don’t want to lose this man, or his contributions. Trust me on this.