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It also sucks to depend on a binary blob + support contracts. Open source wins again. Much more so if you are willing/able to roll up your sleeves and fix the b
by lysace 1y ago
It also sucks to depend on a binary blob + support contracts. Open source wins again. Much more so if you are willing/able to roll up your sleeves and fix the bugs yourself. Noone else will be as motivated as you to fix your particular bug.
I keep finding that it's surprisingly possible to fix the various bugs I encounter, once I decide to actually dig in. Even in languages I'm not an expert in. Available source + build system is worth so much.
Often the biggest hurdle is the mental one, to actually try.
- taylodl 1y ago> Much more so if you are willing/able to roll up your sleeves and fix the bugs yourself. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen that done over the past 25 years, excluding myself. I can also count on one hand the number of times I've seen people build their deployed artifacts from source. These are actually related issues: if you've never built what you've deployed then you're going to be reluctant to make changes, build, and deploy. In theory open source can be much better than what it is, but in practice it's not much different than binary "blob + support contracts", and that's a shame.
- lysace 1y ago(I added some text sort of to that effect to my comment while you were typing. Agreed.)