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Re:CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, writte... by dragosbulugean on Saturday August 06, 2022 @12:13PM (#32369320)
Let's consider Visual Studio Code. It's OSS — still, I read the codebase a couple of times and I wouldn't venture into hacking into it — it's too large.

Being OSS enables hackability, it doesn't provide or guarantee it.

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Re:CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, writte... by lf-non on Saturday August 06, 2022 @12:33PM (#32369516)
I wasn't claiming that OSS necessarily enables a specific individual to be able to hack on it.

Just in case of your example if as a TS programmer I learn about a new code IDE that is open source and is written in TS, I might be more motivated to go check it out and explore it. So that fact does deserve mentioning - that is all I was saying. Whether or not I eventually end up contributing to it depends on a lot of factors and is besides the point.

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