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  • Well yes, but also no. You can’t reproduce a book because that violates copyrights.

    Open source in this context just means that nobody owns the book, you can reproduce it however many times you want, and distribute it where you want as long as you include the original license in the reproduction (MIT license).

    Also, there’s a bit of a colloquial understanding that others are able to contribute or fork the original source material.








  • I do trust it well enough, but I don’t use it.

    For starters, I don’t want it to be too easy to spend money. If I want something, I should want it enough to pull my card out and type the number again.

    Second, the auto-fill often doesn’t work perfectly, so you need the card anyway.

    Third, there’s the slim chance it could be hacked. So why even take that chance when the only benefit is convenience



  • Agreed, as a Java developer you will hopefully find C# familiar but more refined. They share a lot of the same features now, but C# seems to do them all better, in my opinion. Linq especially is just so much more enjoyable for me than Java Streams.

    .NET Core (now just .NET) readily runs on Linux and Visual Studio has a free edition that is superb - an IDE provided by the language developers. Of course, you can always use Visual Studio Code or a third-party offering like Rider (by JetBrains so the transition from Java could be very easy of you are already familiar with their programs).

    My only complaint on C# is that the .NET versioning is a little confusing if you aren’t already familiar. However, that’s only an issue if you work with legacy code. New versions after .NET 5 are all the same naming and upgrading is generally effortless, just changing a single number in your project file and downloading the proper SDK