BufferMaker is not longer maintained

[Sarazh]

BufferMaker is marked as not longer maintained and raises DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues. refer to Nodejs buffer constructor deprecation
May you consider using other package instead? or taking over the maintenance?

Environment

• Node version: 10.16.3
• Kafka-node version: 4.1.1

[jwulf]

Buffermaker is breaking kafka-node's interoperability with other packages in the ecosystem, particularly with Zeebe's Node client. See camunda-community-hub/zeebe-client-node-js#124

Buffermaker has a strict version dependency in it:

"dependencies": {
    "long": "1.1.2"
  },

This breaks gRPC, if kafka-node is installed before the gRPC package that is a dependency of zeebe-node.

The fix for that may be as simple as forking, unlocking the dependency, publishing a package with a more relaxed semver, and depending on that for kafka-node.