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The page describing Shen uses the terms "proprietary" and "closed source" as if they're good things when describing the "Shen Professional" dialect. (Compiler?
by eschaton 10y ago
The page describing Shen uses the terms "proprietary" and "closed source" as if they're good things when describing the "Shen Professional" dialect. (Compiler? Environment? It's a bit opaque.)
I'm certainly no Free Software zealot, but that's been an almost unfailing recipe for getting a language and its ideas ignored for 20+ years now.
- sklogic 10y agoShen was opensourced some time ago, under a BSD-style license: https://github.com/Shen-Language/shen-sources/blob/master/BSD https://github.com/Shen-Language/shen-sources/blob/master/BS...
- eschaton 10y agoAnd the creators appear to be reserving some features for the "commercial" version, and also attempting to heavily promote that version in a way which—I think, based on a few decades' experience—will actively turn away the people who might otherwise be interested in using it.