Now you’re just being silly 
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Open source gets Googled
How many times has google started something it starts to gain traction and they then shelve it thereby effectively killing the project ?
Open source at least has a chance to keep running with it but that doesnt always happen
Like AngularJS (has it moved on without google ?)
AppMaker ?
Noop ?
For a while it seemed Flutter & Dart might go that way as well
Of course, but generally, they tend to still work once abandoned and alternatives tend to exist. It’s possible that PHP might jump the shark, but it hasn’t yet, while FileMaker, 4D, and Xojo have.
There have been some libraries I use that have been abandoned or rarely being updated like moment.js and jQuery. They still work great. I can’t recall now, but I had one library I had to replace.
Open Source lets you replace components as you like. However, there’s no way I can fix Xojo bugs ro FM/4D Pricing. All three are take it or leave it…
There are times I’ll be looking for a web control and and find one that has not been updated a bazillion years old, but it still works or needs a tweak. Unlike when Xojo moving from API 1 to 2 has totally screwed using old projects / code. All that API 1 training, books, examples…
I can’t see using Closed Source in any projects unless there is no choice… FileMaker pricing screwed me over. Xojo bugs screwed me over. In the past 5 years, I’ve experienced none of these issues with Open Source.
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Google is odd. They pretend to be open source in some aspects, but if they can kill or shelve something, I think that might not be Open Source.
OSS has a whole other host of issues. LC was OSS for a bit, but they were dying, because they were not getting the revenue that they needed, so they went back to closed-source.
many OSS tools and languages suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, especially if the communities are small.
i have used 4D for 35 years, and liveCode for twenty, or whatever it’s been, because they don’t suck. i’m inclined to continue to pay 4D’s rent. exchanging dollars for a better experience is exactly why people pay for dev tools. LC…i’m planning on leaving behind, because the new pricing is downright silly, borderline preposterous.
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