lollipop25

You can also rephrase the question as:

- Are you assuming full ES5 support when building libraries?

- Are you assuming partial ES6 support when building libraries?

- Are you pushing shim responsibility to the user?

- Are you ignoring browsers that are 1% or lower in market share?

- When should a library stop hand-holding older systems?

What's your opinion? When should a library shed off legacy browser code?

(legacy = IE10 and below, browsers older than the previous version)

I'm not talking about Twitter snark or HN snark where an all-out nerd war can happen in a snap and nobody really cares. I'm talking about snark thrown in a Github issue.

How do you deal with that while maintaining composure but not totally ignoring the poster?

I have been doing web development for as long as I remember. I get by with tools that are needed for the job. I don't fancy the new and shiny. I just get things done fast and done properly.

But I feel like I'm always a step behind the rest. There's this guy in the team knows how to operate Amazon, or this guy who that knows how to use Spring, or this guy that knows how to scaffold a Java app in minutes. Sure, I can write in the Java language but I don't know Spring by heart. I can build and run containers, but I don't know how to launch them in the cloud.

When is one considered to be a "senior" developer? Is there a means to measure where I am? How do I get there?

I'm a member of an open source project. I tend to issues, answer questions, do house keeping, review some PRs, such and such. But I feel out of place because although I tend to the matters of the repo, I don't really know how the internals work, therefore I could not contribute the most essential part of it all: code.

Other developers in the project are having these cool discussions about implementation in the issue tracker, but I have no idea what they are talking about. They talk about all these buzzwordy things like virtual DOM, view models, and all those things.

Every time I try going on a safari, the parser piece is enough to scare me away. I also tried to implement a minimal version of the framework just to get the basics. But whenever I look back at the project for reference, it feels like I'm rewriting years of debugging and work.

I know how to use the framework, I use it regularly. I can explain to others how to use it, why use it. I just can't wrap my head around the implementation. I feel like I'm not at the same level as the other members of the project.

Am I doing open source right?