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I'm guessing you mean something other than FOSS (free / open source software) in your critique of FOSS. Reason being, Swift is FOSS (https://github.com/apple/sw
by balnaphone 6y ago
I'm guessing you mean something other than FOSS (free / open source software) in your critique of FOSS. Reason being, Swift is FOSS (https://github.com/apple/swift https://github.com/apple/swift), both the compiler and the standard library. Likewise, the Microsoft C# compiler is also FOSS (https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn).
You seem to enjoy closed-source platform libraries (WinForms, AppKit), and want to promote developing software that relies on them. The survival characteristics of this approach don't seem very strong. Good luck!
- fomine3 6y agoBTW WinForms (and WPF) is now open sourced. https://github.com/dotnet/winforms https://github.com/dotnet/winforms
- balnaphone 6y agoYes, that's true, but unfortunately these libraries only work on a closed-source platform, namely Microsoft Windows. My apologies if this wasn't clear in my earlier post.