The Risk Of OpenSource And VC

How to monetize a build system: - Users shown ads during build process - Paid DLC to unlock faster builds

"The great part about jit compiled & interpreted langs is that you don't need to build stuff... " JS: the worst of both worlds

Meanwhile: "He C++, what are you doing?" "Setting up my build-build-system." "You already have a build-build-system." "Just one! What about a second build-build-system."

Pay per build, what could go wrong?

Sometimes VC’s only expectation is to be able to sell their share in 4 years with a profit

Even if its wholesome and great, its one leadership change away from extortion. Hard pass.

A seat on the board of the Linux Foundation costs 500k a year. The Linux Foundation spends 2% of their funds on the Linux Kernel. We are long gone over the horizon, bois.

10MB is better. Transition to web C: scan the client HW and OS send the right C compiler, dependencies, and build system to the client with every page load... compile, link, & test the code and a few minutes later, you're running some BLAZING FAST native code! Web C is the future of write once run everywhere code! It's literally just in time compiling. Plus you have time to make some coffee and clean out your inbox while your page builds.

@9:41 "the best thing about Rust is Cargo; the best thing about Go is the Go build and...does all the formatting..." HOW did Go not call their build system CarGo and let Rust steal the name?!?!? They had at least 6 years to think of it before Rust appeared.

VC + Open source never ends well, sometimes the story goes on for longer, but the end , from experience, is always sower and painful. a better way must be devised