Oh, those wonderful FOSS projects

Have you ever developed Java applications in Netbeans? How long ago was that? If you remember the good, ole times of Oracle's versions 7 or 8, and now you develop in Apache's versions 9+, you are probably like me: astonished.

The Apache's versions are typical FOSS shit: full of annoying, into-your-face, glaring bugs. They are dumb as a truck of bricks but obliging as Jeeves, i.e. they go out of their way to offer dumb code completion that is spot-on 50%.

How do you like sticky errors that either stay on after they have been fixed or do not show up even when still broken?

How do you like random sort order of suggestion drop-downs? Got used to 'add import' being the 1st item? We are now going to sticky shock you by switching the order and putting 'add comment' at the top, for once. And then we'll revert.

And the list is going and going. Once you are infuriated, you will cherish good ole times when Oracle owned the code base. At least they could kick bad devs out of their team or withhold their bonuses. @Apache? Not so much: anything goes.

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