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As everyone keeps saying, this project looks and feels amazing. A beautiful foundational tool to build a project around. Except... I'm scared when I think abo
by ethanpil 4y ago
As everyone keeps saying, this project looks and feels amazing. A beautiful foundational tool to build a project around.
Except...
I'm scared when I think about VC money here. One day someone is going to want a return on that investment and not sure how that will play out.
Imagine if ncurses decide to charge a license fee out of the blue...
Or perhaps more likely in this scenario, one day the framework stops getting updated, then gets rebranded as the community edition, and no longer receives important and/or timely updates.
I'm all for developers making an excellent living, just need to know my own risk factors when investing in tooling and frameworks, etc. It's hard to know here what the future will bring.
Then again, there is no really compelling alternative to this most awesome creation!
- willm 4y agoTextual will always be open source. There will be a proprietary web service which is distinct from the library to build TUIs. Even if that fails, or gets bought out by evil-corp, you can still build and distribute TUI apps. If it makes you feel better, we have a runway of years. I'm Scottish and we don't like spending money.
- typon 4y ago> Textual will always be open source What's the guarantee here?