Yehuda Katz on Open Source Development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqXU4o24Hkg

I really admire Yehuda Katz, and his involvement in Ember is a big part of my sticking with it, and the faith I have in its future. I feel smarter every time I hear him talk.

Angular has blown up in popularity, but I've never felt much confidence in its staying power. I avoided it early on because I thought it was too incremental of a step past Backbone, and didn't go far enough in conventions. That aside, Google's track history isn't very inspiring. They don't support developers outside of their organization for more than 2 years on any given product, in my experience. I started a project using Firebase, and they were acquired by Google, and it scared me for Firebase's future.

At about 24 minutes into that talk, Yehuda talks about breaking a community in half by making the future version team divorced from real use cases, making a case for not separating it from the current version team. He cites Python 3, but it's easy to see the parallel with Angular 2.0.