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Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Post by dabbott »

zxcvcxz wrote: post #10

This appears to be only for OS X. I use to be a big OS X user, but have come to find Linux is a far superior development platform for me. From a comment on reddit: Most developers who use OSX do not develop for OSX/iPhone, but instead deploy 100% of their code to Linux VMs on EC2 or Digital Ocean. Their toolchain is usually 100% OSS terminal-based tools such as Vim/Emacs, tmux, clang/gcc, PHP/Python/Ruby, zsh/bash; a…

This is actually a pretty interesting perspective. I hadn't really thought about how I basically use my Mac like a shiny silver Linux box. But it is so very nice and shiny... well anyway...

Deco is an Electron app, so it should build for Linux without too much trouble. None of us are Linux experts, so we'd be very happy to take any pull requests for Linux support if you have the expertise. As an indicator of demand, we have 2x the beta signups for Windows as Linux though, so we're currently prioritizing Windows support.

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Post by educar »

bsimpson wrote: post #4

Why are you guys using Slack for team comms? Wouldn't it be easier for all involved to be a channel on Reactiflux's Discord?

Does it matter? Slack is free and most (all?) people I know only use the free edition. No different from using GitHub. People will always use free stuff if it's there and of good quality.

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Post by dabbott »

realrocker wrote: post #13

If you don't mind, would you share the reasons for making Deco open source ? This obviously looks high quality and I guess developers would be open to pay for it.Was open sourcing the project always the intention? Not that I am complaining :)

From the beginning, we always wanted it to be free for developers. Mainly because we, as developers, want our tools to be free and open source. And an IDE is such a difficult problem that it really needs the community to make it successful.

We plan on having a commercial license for companies that want to make closed-source modifications. We like the idea of charging companies much more than charging individual developers :)

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Post by ld00d »

oblio wrote: post #17
ld00d wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are you going to make an iOS app without a Mac?

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1189117404435352/react-nativ...

What's the point of using a cross-platform tool if you're only targeting Android?

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Post by bsimpson »

educar wrote: post #12
bsimpson wrote: post #4

Why are you guys using Slack for team comms? Wouldn't it be easier for all involved to be a channel on Reactiflux's Discord?

Does it matter? Slack is free and most (all?) people I know only use the free edition. No different from using GitHub. People will always use free stuff if it's there and of good quality.

It's usually a good idea to lower friction and meet your users where they are. In the case of the React community, most have Discord accounts because Reactiflux was kicked off Slack for having too many non-commercial members. (Supporting open-source projects is an explicit non-goal for Slack.)

Discord welcomes open-source communities and is quite popular in the React community. If you are adding an open-source tool to the React ecosystem, those are both good reasons to prefer Discord. I certainly wouldn't want to build an open-source community on Slack after the way they handled Reactiflux.

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Post by anonsequitur »

conqrr wrote: post #9
dabbott wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linux support would be awesome too. Based on our beta, we got twice as many signups for Windows as Linux, so we're probably gonna prioritize Windows support unless we get a lot of sudden Linux interest.

+1 for Linux interest

Tracking :) https://github.com/decosoftware/deco-ide/issues/10
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