Episode 34: Staying Hum-Babel with Henry Zhu

<center> <small>Sponsored By:</small> <a href="https://promo.linode.com/sustain/" target="_blank"><img src="https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/2/27729c65-f4a6-4496-8c86-820e7f13b285/DAsVtWUA.png" width="150px" heigh="58px"></a> </center> Panelists Pia Mancini | Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer Guest Henry Zhu (https://twitter.com/left_pad/photo) Babel (https://babeljs.io/) Show Notes [00:01:30] Henry explains how he got involved in Babel and how it’s funded. [00:03:18] Eric wonders if Henry wishes he could just step away and just cut ties with it and go do something completely different and how tight is he with this project. He gives a great answer to this! [00:04:39] Pia was wondering if Henry’s relationship with the project itself or his view with Babel changed since he started working full time there. In the beginning, Henry started this as a side job while he worked at Adobe. [00:08:06] Since a lot of maintainers may get to a point in their lives where the issues stack up, but not putting into perspective how big this project is, Justin asks Henry how he deals with this since this is such a huge project and he explains. [00:011:18] Justin wonders how Henry deals with Devs that are coming in and just saying, “Fix it, now,” and hit and run issues. [00:13:06] Henry talks about how as maintainers view each other as extremes. He brings up the quote from “The Dark Knight” as a reference to what he talks about. [00:15:10] Henry mentioned earlier about how Open Source communities could look at faith communities, religion, or church communities. Pia wonders if he has anything in mind from his experience that he wants to share, which he does. [00:20:14] Justin makes a right turn and wants Henry to go into his involvement with TC39 and how it helps him, Babel, and the sustainability with the JavaScript language as a whole. Also, he talks about what he’s accomplished since he joined. [00:24:57] Justin asks Henry about travel expenses and if anyone pays for them. [00:26:4