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The best example I can think of is Letters and Numbers. We have been using them for a long time to communicate and interact with each other.
There is always short comings on every tool and library, and part of responsibility of a good developer is discerning trade-offs.
Can't put it more clearly as you have said.
This is like back in the days of doing cross-browser development where there are 3 of them: IE, Chrome(webkit), Firefox.
Glad to hear that you are able to continue on your job.
Have you considered a different option ? How about building your own start-up to serve real business needs? Or working on open source projects. There are a lot of opportunities to look forward into.
Why keep banging your head multiple times on something, when you can use that energy on other meaningful ways.
This is very true just like in our society (good or bad intention it may be). Nice article Ken Wheeler by the way.
How much time do you normally spend writing OSS?
The fear of change expressed on this article is natural. Enforcing HTTPS is good for consumers. But, we need to watch carefully with the market dominance of Google Chrome.
Will this increase VR adoption?
But, it's not wrong to give Microsoft a chance to cultivate Github. Yes, Microsoft have a long track record of being disproportion with open source products. This is also true with other companies.
Good thing to point out is, there are alternatives.