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Re: I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator by franciscop on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:11AM (#25252629)
As a European [1], I have no idea what you refer when you say "especially most software built by individual hobbyists is [...] not great". Have you seen the websites built professionally by consulting agencies? Public administrations? Sure a hobbyist just starting out doesn't write great code, but hobbyists care a lot more about quality and will improve a lot faster than those just slinging sausages or those making the bucks.

When I peek into your average open source project (made, mostly, by hobbyists) I see good to great quality. Whenever any private code gets leaked, or on your average company, or just inspecting websites, you see the horrors. Just my experience here :)

[1] Spaniard, I do believe our websites might be on the bottom of quality of Europe though, so my experience might be different from other "European"s :)

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Re: I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator by otikik on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:15AM (#25253886)
When I said _individual_ I meant "projects developed by one person only".

In general I agree with you, open source tends to have better quality than proprietary software.

I will point out however that Open Source sees a lot of contribution from non-hobbyists too. That's my case, in fact: my salary for the last 10 years came from working on open source projects.

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