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I'm legit confused on what you're trying to say. Are you saying tech stacks are a bad thing? Or that corporate investment or connection to a tech stack is a bad
by jaaron 6y ago
I'm legit confused on what you're trying to say. Are you saying tech stacks are a bad thing? Or that corporate investment or connection to a tech stack is a bad thing? What's your proposed solution or alternative?
One thing I _think_ you're saying that I do find important:
It's crucial to have experience in more than one ecosystem and tech stack, as you learn a lot from seeing communities reinvent the wheel and not learn from one another. You get to see common patterns in software development and engineering and, sometimes, you find novel approaches that are completely alien to the engineering ecosystem you started out in.
- laksdjfkasljdf 6y agoI am saying opaque, closed and proprietary tech stacks are the danger. See the other reply for a better discussion on what is happening. Basically Microsoft* is very well known for taking open source projects, extending them a little in a nice package, and then silently moving all the code to a proprietary closed solution that later on only works on windows or their platforms. \* microsoft is well known for it, but Google does it a lot too.