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by mike_hearn
603 days ago
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No, generally developers prefer to request help or work around an issue than dive in and fix it. The activation energy for contributing to an upstream project is high and very few do it. Developers are support intense because dev tools and platforms get used in a bazillion ways and combinations you can't predict. It's not like a nice consumer app where the user can only press a limited combination of buttons, and test coverage can be quite exhaustive. GUI toolkits are especially a bottomless pit of edge cases and bugs because they have tens of thousands of API methods, enormous numbers of features, they can all be used in combination, they have to run on multiple platforms usually and those platforms also have bugs etc. The support costs of a GUI toolkit are basically unbounded. |
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