That's not quite true. If you can't complete a build without a proprietary dependency, it's not really foss even if all the source code is freely available, because you can't exercise the freedom 1 (or 3). Similarly, if there's not a FOSS RTS, you can't exercise freedom 0.

"The Java Trap" from RMS was about this, IIRC.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

.NET CLI and msbuild are open source, and C# is awesome. And VS Code is open source.

[–] JamonBear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

VS Code binaries are not open source, so M$ can add telemetry, star rating popup and other shit.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Yes, but there are a ton of awesome IDEs built on top of the base Visual Studio Code Open Source project, you don't have to use the Microsoft one.

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 7 points 21 hours ago

Apple's preferred languages definitely have a smaller foss footprint than say c or rust or go