>But it's important to call out that the user experience most people care about has almost nothing to do with whether or not software is open/hackable. For sof

>But it's important to call out that the user experience most people care about has almost nothing to do with whether or not software is open/hackable. For software developers I think that's a damn shame. Craftsmen have always made their tools suit themselves. If you aren't hacking your development tools, you're missing out, and if that opportunity is lost due to closed IDEs, that really sucks.