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Have there been any recent languages/environments that (have reasonably) succeeded but aren't completely open source? I feel a general resistance to building a
by rogerbinns 10y ago
Have there been any recent languages/environments that (have reasonably) succeeded but aren't completely open source? I feel a general resistance to building a dependency on something when you don't have complete access to it, but maybe that is just me.
- ktRolster 10y agoHave there been any recent languages/environments that (have reasonably) succeeded but aren't completely open source? Xamarin. iOS too, although that depends on what you mean by 'recent'
- rogerbinns 10y agoMy comment was because I found it interesting that they are trying the partially open source model, when it seems like that hinders adoption. So 'recent' is the competition for adoption. Didn't a lot of Xamarin get open sourced after the acquisition? Swift is also open source, although Xcode isn't.
- ktRolster 10y ago>Swift is also open source, True, though practically speaking, it's not very usable without the (closed-source) Cocoa libraries (much like objective-C).