The previous code was released under lgpl so…. Yeah if you can find a copy of it you are entitled to it. That was the developer’s choice.

Taking all the old code down with a force push to GitHub suddenly is a bit futile since obviously there are ways to get the old source.

I’m not against developers getting paid, but there’s definitely a ‘rug-pulling’ aspect to this situation that leaves a bad taste.

They claim that not enough people donated, hence the change in licensing. But yeah, I don’t see the business case. I imagine commercial devs will just move on to something else.

It’s just a wrapper for other GUI libraries.

That and I’m sure it’ll be forked.

The user has to have a key to use the software, no free account then no key after 30 days unless the developer paid for the key.

Great for prototyping and quick scripts.

That and such rich set of libraries for anything you want.

Also keeps your base system clean if you uninstall (big reason why docker is so popular on servers). Can create custom environments for a project then just delete everything when you’re done.

Also very useful on immutable distros like Fedora Silverblue (all my command line programs and some gui programs are in a distrobox container, exported to the host so they are just there like normal).

The Distrobox assemble command allows you to install programs from a file and automatically export (unfortunately there’s some bugs I hope are fixed soon). So things can be declarative like nixos.

I use it daily, with ultisnips, to write reports at work!

I see a lot of service members in my job… trust me a large percentage are negatively impacted…

Go through the book Automate The Boring Things (Python)

Then AFTER figure out your own projects.

You can definitely learn to program without being great at math. Obviously, depends on what kind of programming.

If you want a computer science degree though? You’ll need the math.

I recommend the ThermoPop!