> the power and elegance offered by the tech giants (Swift, C#/.NET etc.) continues to lap open source equivalents Ignoring for the moment that both of those a

> the power and elegance offered by the tech giants (Swift, C#/.NET etc.) continues to lap open source equivalents Ignoring for the moment that both of those are open-source, I've used both of them for several years on major projects, and I'm not sure I see this "power and elegance" you refer to. Did you mean to say "old concepts dressed in the newer fashion, and backwards compatibility"?