Re:Retool raises $45M at a $3.2B valuation
by LionTamer on Sunday July 31, 2022 @01:25PM
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I feel like “vendor lock-in” is fundamentally different when you’re (a) not paying for the underlying libraries and don’t have to worry about future price hikes (b) can edit and modify the underlying source code to suit your needs.
It also seems like you and I are having very different experiences with how much boilerplate we need to write to get simple programs working. In streamlit[1] for example you can get a dashboard up and running in minutes.
Also "vendor lock-in" occurs in open source. Most code that gets written day-to-day is written by developers who are not qualified to work on the underlying libraries they depend on. We are locked into our server frameworks, our database engines, our front-end frameworks, our authentication library, etc.