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doesn't it put a big incentive to letting them die?
https://vcpkg.io/en/index.html
this implies Python's advantages is not having a package manager, but better teachers or at least teaching better practices, so it isn't even language related.
same goes for all the other language features.
also it isn't extortion if someone gets a better offer elsewhere, and the offer cant be infinitly high.
to conclude no retention means lack of second order thinking.
i assume AWS learned to target businesses with this shady strategy, which do waste huge amounts of money this way, instead of burning bridges with hobbyist developers over pennies that later will avoid using AWS at the workplace if given the choice.
after trying at least dozen C++ GUI libs and none of them being good enough (license, limited portability, limited customability,...) i started making my own one which is OpenGL based, got automatic layouting, separation of concerns of layout/style/logic, permissive license, and provides building blocks to make your own widgets. https://github.com/Enhex/GUI