The Future of Lodash

6 months ago

Lodash is transitioning to a collaborative and sustainable model to ensure its future.
Lodash is used by 9.3 million websites and has 2.4 billion weekly npm downloads.
Maintaining Lodash as a single maintainer has been challenging, prompting a shift to a Technical Steering Committee (TSC).
The focus will be on simplifying maintenance, improving security, and offering a clear future to users.
Security improvements include adopting a Threat Model and formalizing incident response processes.
Lodash plans a progressive rewrite using native functions to benefit from V8 optimizations.
Lessons from Express highlight the need for active community, clear governance, and financial support.
Open source sustainability remains a critical issue, requiring more funding and initiatives.
Sponsors are sought to help maintain Lodash and other open-source projects.

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