Everyone Loves Open Source… Until It's Time to Contribute
We live in an era where open source is everywhere. From backend tools to frontend frameworks, from infrastructure-as-code to machine learning libraries — open source is the backbone of modern software development. And yet, when it comes to contributing, most developers are… missing in action. This isn't a rant. It’s a reflection based on data, observations, and a little bit of lived experience. Let’s dig in.

We live in an era where open source is everywhere. From backend tools to frontend frameworks, from infrastructure-as-code to machine learning libraries — open source is the backbone of modern software development.
And yet, when it comes to contributing, most developers are… missing in action.
This isn't a rant. It’s a reflection based on data, observations, and a little bit of lived experience. Let’s dig in.