Language choice has nothing to do with foss vs proprietary.
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Apple's preferred languages definitely have a smaller foss footprint than say c or rust or go
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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.
Is bit keeper even still around anymore?
Love that the Guix logo is included!
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.
Emacs, icecat, guix, parabola, c, c++. Stallman. What are the others in that quadrant?
GNU Savannah and old thinkpads that can run with fully free software.
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What's the logo between Guix and C?
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.
At work I'm the only dude that uses Windows and Linux. Everyone else uses Macs.
I'm shocked you have a choice at work.
I had a couple of jobs that only allows Macs. It was horrible. The M1 Mac couldn't do 3 monitors(two side by side and main monitor). What kind of "PRO" system doesn't allow 3 monitors?!?!
I remember using 3 on Windows 7 in like 2015. That's crazy. And I think I could open the laptop to get 4. This was an IBM Thinkpad with a dock. I wonder if USB C and dongles have made it harder somehow?
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I have no idea😒