Not everything has to be _free_. The major benefit of OSS for many is that you can read the source code. The major benefit of paid SaaS is that things just work and you pay for that. BSL can be the perfect combination of these.

GitHub is the logical place for an “awesome react” list even if it’s not necessarily intended for that.

The worst and biggest messes in software engineering that I've seen have been situations where there was not enough engineering management. And those situations were fixed by... introducing proper engineering (and product!) management.

That being said, it is perhaps possible to survive with less engineering management in a situation where everyone is behaving and performing at senior or above level. However, realistically, that is very rarely the case.

However, I guess big tech companies have become part of the superpower games (USA vs. China etc.). Breaking up Google might just mean a Chinese company takes over. Can't trust the other governments to enforce similar market conditions.

So yeah, like you said, conditions of the universe :)

All messaging apps have their own native features, some have E2E encryption etc. Not sure if there's a common subset that is enjoyable enough to use that it's worth it.

That being said, I do wonder what will be the "Facebook Events" (invite all your friends to an event) equivalent in the future when everyone is in a closed garden chat platform instead of Facebook.

However, still totally worth it, easily. Just saying they have a healthy B2B business model.

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Would you prefer that it's a if-elseif-else based structure instead? I guess that would work too but I feel like it could be easier to write it in a way where you accidentally forget to handle some case (since your else / last return is a potential catch-all).

I personally don't mind switch-case because I'm so accustomed to it in ReasonML/ReScript already.

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It's likely never going to produce production quality web UIs for sites that have millions of consumer users where everything has to be optimised by hand but that's not really most use cases or the case for NoCode/LowCode.

This is what I've been using for Postgres:

        docker volume create postgres
        docker run -d \
          -p 127.0.0.1:5432:5432 \
          -v postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data \
          --name postgres \
          --restart always \
          postgres

Also it's very easy to buy PostgreSQL from various DBaaS providers. There's a docker one liner to set it up on any development machine and you need to run it just once.

Sure, SQLite is a little bit easier but it's so much less powerful as a database. Why not just go to Postgres directly and leave SQLite for what it's intended: embedded programming like mobile apps or in-car entertainment systems etc.

type schema = { field1: any, field2: any, ... }

AFAIK the column types are not really enforced and you can even leave them out.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2489936/sqlite3s-dynamic...