| >You've heard of Open Core, I imagine? It's not "Open Core" if the core is not open. In this case a debugger is core part of a language.
It's a very clear movement in order to keep C# devs within their ecosystem and guarantee revenue with Azure. They loose money here , they must get it somewhere else. This guarantee a total monopoly over the .NET ecosystem , Rider is probably one of the only tools that tried to offer an alternative they are stuck with the exact issue of not being able to bring the debugger because of that hostile license policy. >Even the GitLab everyone's talking about in this context is Open Core. I never talked about Gitlab and I don't care about them. Don't be mistaken about MS , almost every move they do as a double intention behind it. Just to name a few : One MS engineer is core member to Webpack & Angular , why ? Windows Server dashboard is written in Angular , it's a critical product, they need some controller there. One MS engineer is core contributor to Electron, why ? VS Code is powered by electron , it's a critical product, they need some control here as well. One MS engineer is core contributor to Vue.js , why ? Azure is investing hundred of millions in China and Asia due to insane growth over the past 5 years, they need a good image in asia. If you think MS has changed , you are delusional about the situation. |