Point I made in a conversation that I think bears repeating: Because so much developer tooling, libraries, etc. rely on free labour, the reason behind "Why doesn't X exist?" is almost always "The right coincidence of time, interest, and skill set to make it exist hasn't happened"
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Replying to @DRMacIver
I think it's usually more accurate to say "subsidized labour" - the developers are paid to work on it, or it is a byproduct of some other work (like my open source stuff)
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Replying to @fanf
Eventually that's true for a lot of projects, sure, but even for the ones it's true for I bet they mostly didn't start that way and that's what determines what exists
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Replying to @DRMacIver @fanf
In my experience, most good projects started as free labor not subsidized.
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When you're creating something just because you need it to get something else more important done, the result is rarely of decent quality.
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