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Re:Being Slow to Criticise by balnaphone on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:39AM (#23141042)
I'm guessing you mean something other than FOSS (free / open source software) in your critique of FOSS. Reason being, Swift is FOSS (https://github.com/apple/swift), both the compiler and the standard library. Likewise, the Microsoft C# compiler is also FOSS (https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn).

You seem to enjoy closed-source platform libraries (WinForms, AppKit), and want to promote developing software that relies on them. The survival characteristics of this approach don't seem very strong. Good luck!

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Re:Being Slow to Criticise by fomine3 on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:17PM (#23149105)
BTW WinForms (and WPF) is now open sourced. https://github.com/dotnet/winforms
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Re:Being Slow to Criticise by balnaphone on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:10PM (#23149850)
Yes, that's true, but unfortunately these libraries only work on a closed-source platform, namely Microsoft Windows. My apologies if this wasn't clear in my earlier post.
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