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What I see in closed source systems - this is particularly clear in MS - is that the developers are always waiting for the controlling company to do something.
by pnathan 13y ago
What I see in closed source systems - this is particularly clear in MS - is that the developers are always waiting for the controlling company to do something.
I don't see this same attitude in open source - the users are common major contributors to the ecosystem.
Just something I've noticed.
- tpetricek 13y agoI completely agree with your observation, but I'm not sure what is the point that you're trying to make here :-). F# is open-source and has a very active community that is contributing to many core parts - including the tooling (http://fsprojects.github.io/VisualFSharpPowerTools/ http://fsprojects.github.io/VisualFSharpPowerTools/ and http://fsharp.github.io/FAKE/ http://fsharp.github.io/FAKE/), the compiler now also accepts contributions and there are a few work-in-progress pull requests, as well as building some of the core F# libraries, e.g. for data science (http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Data/ http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Data/, http://bluemountaincapital.github.io/Deedle/ http://bluemountaincapital.github.io/Deedle/, etc.) I think the F# community is much more like the "open source" model than the "closed MS model". The change is slowly happening in the rest of .NET, but F# is way ahead here.