The OSS project Core-JS- the story of 9 Billion downloads

About 9 billion NPM downloads / 250 million NPM downloads for a month, 19 million dependent GitHub repositories (global ⋃ pure) — Core-JS is the most popular and the most universal polyfill of the JavaScript standard library, which provides support for the latest ECMAScript standard and proposals, from ancient ES5 features to bleeding edge features like iterator helpers, and web platform features closely related to ECMAScript, like structuredClone. The story highlights the story of a single Russian maintainer who is responsible for maintaining the open source project Core-JS, which has been downloaded billions of times and used by many popular websites. Despite the project's criticality, the maintainer has received no help and struggles to make ends meet. The story warns that the project could end badly unless the community steps up to provide support. To help, users of open-js should identify which of their applications use Core-JS, flag any risks based on the maintainer's warnings, develop a roadmap to replace or vendor the library if necessary, provide financial assistance to the maintainer, and convince organizations like OpenSSF or OpenJS Foundation to adopt the project. Know more: