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A lot of people in this thread are coming in here to shit on Oracle. I don't know anything about Oracle. Maybe they're awful. But I've interacted with the folk
by gavinray 5y ago
A lot of people in this thread are coming in here to shit on Oracle.
I don't know anything about Oracle. Maybe they're awful. But I've interacted with the folks on the GraalVM team on a semi-regular basis and they're all genuinely friendly, helpful people.
I can understand bringing up "Hey the parent company is no bueno in my book"
But I don't think it's necessarily fair to the humans behind the product, who don't embody the company itself and are (for the most part) just genuinely interested in working on this problem and building a product -- to bring that kind of criticism.
Imagine you got your dream job working on something you were passionate about, and you're just doing your honest-to-god best, but every time someone brings up your work the only thing you hear is "Hey, fuck your company."
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Just my $0.02 though
- nextaccountic 5y agoThen perhaps Graal should forked and managed by a foundation? I'm serious. The tech is pretty cool indeed, and it's open source.
- darksaints 5y agoYou're right. It's not fair to the creators. They have done an awesome job at creating a very useful thing...but they did it for the wrong company. This should be a massive warning to anybody who cares about what they create: don't do it for an unethical company that will use your work to fuck over their customers.