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There was once an old saying “ye, who pays the maintainers of open source, controls the roadmap of the open source project”. Add a dash of people not caring ab

There was once an old saying “ye, who pays the maintainers of open source, controls the roadmap of the open source project”. Add a dash of people not caring about FOSS tooling (ie mass adoption of visual studio) and the future could be grim. There is currently a very large amount of infinity stones (core developer tools across all ecosystems) under the control of a single company (!) and reporting to a single person (!) I hope the cynic within is wrong about this one.

geofft 5y ago
So this is just the old "open source sustainability" problem. Open source has always been largely the work of people funded by hostile corporate interests. The very words "open source" came from hostile corporate interests because "free software" scared their finance people. And people never cared about FOSS tooling in the past. A whole lot of open source developers use Windows and macOS. There was a time when Sublime Text was as popular as Visual Studio Code. .NET gained its popularity while it was closed source, while Miguel de Icaza was reimplementing it as Mono. (Frankly, there was a time - which only ended a couple years ago - when Visual Studio proper, not Code, was not even freely available, never mind open-source-ness.)