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Is support costs for a language actually worth it? I've used Python professionally for about 10 years now and never hit an actual python runtime bug or needed t
by squeaky-clean 4y ago
Is support costs for a language actually worth it? I've used Python professionally for about 10 years now and never hit an actual python runtime bug or needed to contact the PSF for support. A language vendor telling me about the faith I should have in their support sounds like I shouldn't have faith in the language.
I've never learned a lisp because every runtime and tooling set up seems 20 years behind modern. I'd be interested in learning with a good lisp variant, but not if I have to pay.
It's like how Adobe doesn't really do anything major to prevent piracy. And because of that hobbyists learn their tools and then companies have to pay for those tools because it's the dominant tool in that industry.
- taeric 4y agoSupport at this level can also include help making something perform well. Or help understanding bugs in your code. That is, it isn't just a "prove we are at fault and we will fix it thing" which plagues a lot of moderate sized projects online.