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The sad thing is that it's almost futile raising a bug against complex software like this or IDEs. It doesn't matter if it's FOSS or commercial, they already ha
by duncanawoods 6y ago
The sad thing is that it's almost futile raising a bug against complex software like this or IDEs. It doesn't matter if it's FOSS or commercial, they already have backlogs of 10000s of bugs so unless loads of other people are reporting the same bug, it almost certainly won't be fixed.
I have never had a Visual Studio or Windows bug report fixed and only a few JetBrains ones fixed. However, if it's a small tool or library then it's a different story, much higher response rate.
- gitgud 6y ago> It doesn't matter if it's FOSS or commercial It does matter, you can't fix a problem with IntelliJ, you need to wait until the company considers it economically viable to fix, ie enough people report it or its critical. But if something in an Open-source system pisses you off, you can fix it yourself. It not for everyone, but at least it's possible to fix FOSS systems yourself...
- duncanawoods 6y agoOh sure, I was just meaning in terms of bug reports actually precipitating action. For this type of software it's more like software a complexity issue than an economic one. > But if something in an Open-source system pisses you off, you can fix it yourself. I'm literally doing that right now :)