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You hit the point I've missed to punctuate. At least Adacore's stuff is FOSS'd. Well, a version or two away at least. In contrast with Allegro, that's a huge po
by Keyframe 10y ago
You hit the point I've missed to punctuate. At least Adacore's stuff is FOSS'd. Well, a version or two away at least. In contrast with Allegro, that's a huge point forward. Also, at least someone is actively working on FOSS, even though it's only one company (mostly). That's kind of the only major downside I saw with Ada when I've tried to answer to myself that question of why isn't anyone using it outside of people already using it. The other part-answer would probably be that it's not in fashion, but I'm not concerning myself with that.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoI remember that I loved reading most of what was on Allegro's feature page. Especially AllegroCache where you put OOP data in an OOP database instead of the round peg, square hole concept involving a RDBMS & ORM that are popular. They throw in a Prolog for queries and their own little SourceForge of libraries. Kept it proprietary at a cost. It about seemed worth the money albeit I'd keep a FOSS variant of my code on CLISP or something in parallel just in case. ;) Then I saw the real anti-FOSS: royalties. They charge royalties!? In (year here) in software!? Their dependence is reminiscent of Adacore but their financial benefit on development and distribution can only be topped by Microsoft, IBM, and Apple. ;)
- Keyframe 10y agoThose royalties, man. That's some next-level Oracle stuff they had going on. I always wondered would CL have had more adoption if Franz had abandoned those and sold tools only. I don't know how Mirai pulled it off. They were using Allegro, as far as I remember. Though they went bust, but I bet not due to royalties, hah.