📝Open source inhibits progress for development tools

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Software developers expect dev tools to be open source and free. This disincentives development of development tools. (Open source slows progress in software technology by demonetizing it)

Argument

• Virtually every programming language / compiler are open-source
  • there are exceptions such as Mu (Haskell VM) and Intel compiler

Counterargument

• JetBrains built a company selling IDEs
• LLM-based editors/agents are an example of paid development tools