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I’m very uncomfortable with the degree to which I’ve become dependent on VSCode, GitHub, and Typescript. Microsoft has the same incentives to exploit their user
by cageface 2y ago
I’m very uncomfortable with the degree to which I’ve become dependent on VSCode, GitHub, and Typescript. Microsoft has the same incentives to exploit their users now that they always have.
- cjk2 2y agoI've purposely avoided all three of those for that very reason. I've spent 30 years working with Microsoft stacks. It paid the mortgage off but it's been hell from a churn and lock in perspective. So much ROI was wasted on rewrites because of their policies and schizophrenic direction changes. I'm in a different space now and I am blessed that my editor is vim, my language is either Go or Julia and my VCS is Fossil.
- neonsunset 2y ago> Go Funny. Great choice! Almost makes one believe the company behind it is not the biggest driver of AdTech in the world, whose business model is built entirely on selling user data, and that company also has propensity to kill much beloved and heavily used projects no matter how ridiculous the move is.
- baq 2y agoFortunately I think we're good here given how MS org chart[0] looks like. [0] https://i.imgur.com/XLuaF0h.png https://i.imgur.com/XLuaF0h.png
- lioeters 2y ago> VSCode, GitHub, and Typescript So true. Majority of my time on the computer is dominated by these, and I'm not comfortable they're all owned by Microsoft. I don't see how they could ruin a programming language, but a code editor and centralized code repository.. Especially the latter, I'm surprised how long it's been since the acquisition and so far it's been mostly unaffected by the inevitable enshittification. The only thing that will incentivize Microsoft from ruining these admittedly great products is the existence of viable alternatives. Same with Windows, minus the great part.