Fewer people will get into unraid. Natural churn will happen. The OS will slowly die, and as it dies usability will get worse.

Not many people are going to choose the subscription Linux over a free Linux.

I am a dev, but not a Rust dev.

Rust, Go, and C# look like the future to me. Everyone is moving to strongly typed, explicitly typed languages for a reason.

Rust is as fast as it gets, and much much safer and easier than C or C++ at the cost of slightly odder syntax than higher level languages.

Microsoft has done great things with C# and open source and multi-platforming. It’s the easiest, quickest, safest way to develop business applications. The performance is really pretty good until you compare it to Rust.

Go is between the two, but probably a little closer to Rust.

Other languages will stick around the same way Fortran has still been in use despite being deprecated for 30 years. But really nobody should be developing anything new in PHP.

While I generally agree with you, you can’t call that a strange take.

Their views are concerning, but so far I haven’t seen them trying to force their views anywhere yet. And having a fork as a real option helps mitigate a lot of that risk.

I’m certainly okay with the $50k/year they’re trying to make for working on this full time. I’d be fine with triple that.

If it gets out of hand, we have options. They’re aware of that (in fact offered it), and have been acting appropriately afaik.

Maybe this would work for you?

https://unraid.net/community/apps