That’s not quite true. If you can’t complete a build without a proprietary dependency, it’s not really foss even if all the source code is freely available, because you can’t exercise the freedom 1 (or 3). Similarly, if there’s not a FOSS RTS, you can’t exercise freedom 0.
Language choice has nothing to do with foss vs proprietary.
That’s not quite true. If you can’t complete a build without a proprietary dependency, it’s not really foss even if all the source code is freely available, because you can’t exercise the freedom 1 (or 3). Similarly, if there’s not a FOSS RTS, you can’t exercise freedom 0.
“The Java Trap” from RMS was about this, IIRC.
.NET CLI and msbuild are open source, and C# is awesome. And VS Code is open source.
Apple’s preferred languages definitely have a smaller foss footprint than say c or rust or go