[overtomanu]

There is a post on reddit by the author

Bold 0.2 - An IDE with LSP, DAP and more : programming

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1eupocr/bold_0...

[meiraleal]

He is getting a lot of hate there for not open-sourcing it. I noticed a very hostile environment for one-person projects that don't do everything open-source, while businesses aren't held to the same standard, and they are the ones that benefit the most. That's sad.

[bachmeier]

> He is getting a lot of hate there for not open-sourcing it.

We have very different definitions of "hate". I mean, some posts are mildly negative, but there's nothing there that could be described as hate.

[rossy]

It's not unfair. I have a different standard for proprietary payware and proprietary freeware. With the former, you know where you stand, but in my experience, the reasons for not releasing freeware under a FOSS licence are normally user-hostile, like baiting in users with a free product and charging money once they're hooked. I've been bitten too many times, so I don't tend to install proprietary freeware anymore.

[efilife]

Large buisnesses ars less likely to deploy malware on your PC, they have reputation, contrary to some random programmer on the internet

[omoikane]

Earlier thread seems more well received:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1c8yhll/i_cant...

"I can't stand using vscode so I wrote my own". I suppose that explains the motivation and the intended audience.

[wyclif]

He should go with just naming it "Bold." Not "Bold Edit", just "Bold." Not be all Sean Parker, but that seems obvious to me.

[chrsw]

I kind of agree, shorter is sweeter.