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Mar 29, 2020 · Frontend Development

What Happens to Core‑JS When Its Creator Is Imprisoned? Impact on 19k Dependent Packages

The imprisonment of core‑js author Denis Pushkarev raises concerns for the library’s future maintenance, affecting over 19,000 npm packages—including major polyfills—while the community seeks new maintainers and proposes organizational safeguards to protect critical open‑source dependencies.