“$400 for 250 hours… It will be less than $2 per hour of work, for the year before a little more: $4 per hour.”
core-js pulls 250 million npm downloads a month and keeps most of the web’s polyfills running. Its maintainer’s income just fell to about $400 a month after Tidelift stopped paying Russians and kept the money. His first donation drive raised $57 a month. Engineers earning $300,000 a year tell him to stop begging, while their companies ship his code for free.