Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Chromium Fixes Decade Old Linux Scroll Speed Bug" video.

@wumwum42 That's optimistic. It's more likely our great grandchildren that'll see Half-Life 3.
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@_zetrax Not to advocate for developer abuse, as I am one myself, but Google does pay developers to contribute to open source projects such as Chromium and other companies do as well on that and other projects. So some open source developers do get paid to write code. Although, in this case, whoever closed the issue and refused to open it back up actually does deserve abuse, regardless of whether they were paid or not.
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The problem here is that the developers in control of the project prevented a fix from being made to the public repos. If you know how to do it you could just download the source and modify that one line and build from scratch yourself. It only takes 30 hours with a good machine, and you have to actually know how to build it from source which isn't trivial for a program such as a browser. Of course, if you have a bug in a closed source program, your choices are between do nothing and use a different program.
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Sometimes developers are too arrogant to get out of their own butt and realize how the world works. Unfortunately, it looks like we're moving towards a future where things work in a worse way, not so much because of the developers, although somewhat because of them, but mostly because people in general are getting dumber. This is why languages like Python have grown in popularity over the past 20 years instead of dying out like they deserved.
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Scrolling through the videos I've missed this past month I had to watch this one. This issue is one of the topmost reasons why I refuse to even use Chromium-based browsers as daily drivers. I used to love Opera before they switched to using Chromium as their base, and if I had to use one of the Chrome-likes it would be Opera, but that scrolling issue frustrated me so much. FireFox isn't what I would call a great browser, in fact it would get an OK rating from me, but it's still better than Chrome in every other way. If only websites would stop targeting specific browsers we could stop warring over them, but really, I'd rather we start from scratch with the internet.
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