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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is pretty much nonsense lol

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[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Language choice has nothing to do with foss vs proprietary.

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Apple's preferred languages definitely have a smaller foss footprint than say c or rust or go

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[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

Is bit keeper even still around anymore?

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Freedom is to proprietary as libertarian is to authoritarian. Tradition is to distruption as political right is to political left. Better would be for the x axis to be left-to-right disruption->tradition and the y axis to be bottom-to-top freedom->proprietary. So, rotated 90° counterclockwise and then mirrored left-to-right.

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Emacs, icecat, guix, parabola, c, c++. Stallman. What are the others in that quadrant?

[–] Baleine@jlai.lu 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

GNU Savannah and old thinkpads that can run with fully free software.

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[–] CaJoasca_Baloon@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

it's definitely generalized, but I'd say I fit the disruptive open source type, though i respect the trad open source guys a lot.. But, like.. as of currently, I can't even call myself an actual programmer seeing as I write stories instead of code nowadays..

Definitely would like to balance the two someday.

[–] banshee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I think there's a healthy amount of bs in there (Chrome, C# as traditional?), but some of it checks out. I like a mix of old and new but try to stay away from proprietary. Current favorites are probably Emacs, NixOS, and Rust.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago

Love that the Guix logo is included!

[–] entwine@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

What's the logo between Guix and C?

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

At work I'm the only dude that uses Windows and Linux. Everyone else uses Macs.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I'm shocked you have a choice at work.

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[–] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where's the drunken conglomeration that is Scala?

Btw. It's my favorite language

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This whole chart should've been rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wouldn't that put Bill Gates on the "freedom" side?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No, I mean the whole chart should be rotated, including the labels. I want "freedom" to be across the bottom and "proprietary" to be across the top, so that it matches "libertarian" and "authoritarian" on the political compass.

("Tradition" and "disruption" don't map to "left" and "right" quite as well, but if it were exact it would just be the political compass instead of just analogous to it.)

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