Specifically, do you worry that Microsoft is going to eventually do the Microsoft thing and horribly fuck it up for everyone? I’ve really grown to appreciate the language itself, but I’m wary of it getting too ingrained at work only to have the rug pulled out from under us when it’s become hard to back out.
Edit: not really “pulling the rug”, but, you know, doing the Microsoft classic.
Bill Gates was and still is a shady piece of shit. Microsoft is a lot better without him - but that’s a low bar.
Personally what bothers me is that they’re starting to treat developers as users, the same as they treat Grandpa’s operating system, or Beth in accounting’s office suite: make everything “easy” and “intuitive” and “helpful”. I became a developer because I got tired of my computers getting in my way, so now I make them do what I want. I don’t want or need an intuitive, helpful interface. If you’re going to make a tool for me to use, just make the tool do that thing and that’s it.
I’ve mostly moved on from GitHub, only using it for little pushes because the green dots look good for prospective employers.
Edit: for those if you unfamiliar with how he’s been a piece of shit specifically recently: he is the primary reason why covid vaccines weren’t open-sourced. Poor countries were forced to live or die based on the generosity of wealthy nations (and the infrastructure around that generosity), rather than enabling them to buy it from less expensive sources, or even make it themselves.
Not only is that just shitty on its face, let’s not forget that a pandemic somewhere is a pandemic everywhere; the fact that he prolonged covid in poor countries (resulting in the death of thousands if not hundreds of thousands), he kept it from fading in wealthy countries, too (resulting in the death of thousands if not hundreds of thousands).
Gates’s battle to protect “intellectual property rights” (read: take but don’t give) has been a life-long thing for him, literally since childhood. His viciously selfish tactics have produced great success for him, but it’s a despicable kind of success… And having “retired” and amassed more money than he could possibly spend, you’d think he could just sit back and let the rest of us get on with it, but no - that’s not how his level of selfishness works - it’s insatiable.
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Bill Gates was and still is a shady piece of shit. Microsoft is a lot better without him - but that’s a low bar.
Personally what bothers me is that they’re starting to treat developers as users, the same as they treat Grandpa’s operating system, or Beth in accounting’s office suite: make everything “easy” and “intuitive” and “helpful”. I became a developer because I got tired of my computers getting in my way, so now I make them do what I want. I don’t want or need an intuitive, helpful interface. If you’re going to make a tool for me to use, just make the tool do that thing and that’s it.
I’ve mostly moved on from GitHub, only using it for little pushes because the green dots look good for prospective employers.
Edit: for those if you unfamiliar with how he’s been a piece of shit specifically recently: he is the primary reason why covid vaccines weren’t open-sourced. Poor countries were forced to live or die based on the generosity of wealthy nations (and the infrastructure around that generosity), rather than enabling them to buy it from less expensive sources, or even make it themselves.
Not only is that just shitty on its face, let’s not forget that a pandemic somewhere is a pandemic everywhere; the fact that he prolonged covid in poor countries (resulting in the death of thousands if not hundreds of thousands), he kept it from fading in wealthy countries, too (resulting in the death of thousands if not hundreds of thousands).
Gates’s battle to protect “intellectual property rights” (read: take but don’t give) has been a life-long thing for him, literally since childhood. His viciously selfish tactics have produced great success for him, but it’s a despicable kind of success… And having “retired” and amassed more money than he could possibly spend, you’d think he could just sit back and let the rest of us get on with it, but no - that’s not how his level of selfishness works - it’s insatiable.
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