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Open source can't coordinate?
I was taking a shower this morning, and was pondering yesterday's problem, where I suspect that I have an outdated version of hotspot Linux profiler, but I can't just go and download a fresh release from GitHub, because hotspot is a KDE app, and I use NixOS. And NixOS isn't a problem --- it's a solution.
The past ten years saw a big shift in how we are writing software: baseline level of “interactive static analysis” became the norm, go to definition is universally available. So the world had to wait for Microsoft to pick up the slack here, when they decided to gobble up the entire developer ecosystem as an investment. I think part of that is a rather unique governance structure, where there’s a centralized control over the API area and strong commitment to the public interfaces.
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