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> Material Design is focusing on support for Google's large-scale internal Wiz framework, and has reassigned the engineers working on Material Web Components. T
by hamasho 2y ago
> Material Design is focusing on support for Google's large-scale internal Wiz framework, and has reassigned the engineers working on Material Web Components. This places MWC into maintenance mode.
This shows that even widely used open-source projects aren't immune to being abandoned by the companies.
I'm currently enjoying VS Code, but I wonder if it will face a similar fate.
There's a risk Microsoft could prioritize VisualStudio or move important features behind a paywall.
It may be one or two board members away from abusing their market power to push for full monetization of the product.
- pragmatic 2y agoBig difference is MSFT actually makes money from dev tools. Visual studio, azure DevOps, GitHub, copilot.
- niutech 2y agoThe biggest advantage of open source is that anyone can fork it and develop further - see e.g. Servo abandoned by Mozilla or Ubuntu Touch, but still being developed. The same would definitely be with VSCode/ium.