Nate - We discussed the issues extensively on discord and you even did a video call with me and my team. The entire core theming structure changed multiple times and worked with Eshan (which you represented as being a great developer and contributor to Tamagui) to solve the issues… just to have them break again on a minor version for you to release takeout. Having donated over $1,000 to the project and spent a ton of time in the discord and messaged with you more than a handful of times I feel like this comment isn’t genuine but is to save face on HN.
The theme API has not changed, we did refactor the logic behind it, and yes we've had regressions. It's a complex system. But we've always followed on with a fix, and we've added many, many tests in that area.
Listen, I really am sorry that you guys had trouble, and I really appreciate the support you gave. Did you come to me when you had these regressions? If there's one thing it's that I am responsive to issues, especially with sponsors.
Ehsan is a decent developer, and I'm not sure what you mean by "to release takeout". But I don't appreciate the end of your comment, I'm being pretty frank here and admitting we had regressions.
It feels a bit more like you want to offload a failure entirely to me. I don't think it's a smart strategy to be updating hundreds of dependencies many times within a few month period. Tamagui has generally been stable and we have tons of success stories, and I get thanks literally daily from people.
Again, I don't deny that we have had regressions and instability, especially around January when we had a bug slip through that we missed for a week, and that was hard to fix due to a change that was merged after it. That was one of the worst two weeks of my life - I spent an entire period of 4 days over a weekend with 3 hours of sleep on average each night fixing that issue.
But I think the real and true story is that Tamagui has been generally stable for quite a long time, and if you compare it to the 50+ libraries you'd need to glue together to make up a similar surface area it likely would be more stable.
