Are you talking about full on translation, or just translating individual words?

Yes macOS has builtin OCR, but what about the translation itself? You still need a cloud service for that.

If you want to read Japanese but lookup words/kanji you don't understand, I have a tool for that (full disclosure: it's a paid app) that I developed for exactly this purpose. Yomitai: https://yomitai.app/

Same. I decided to just go back to Sublime Text.

I think his complaint is not that he has to pay money per se, but having to pay several thousand dollars. That's a bit much for an independent developer.

I have little sympathy for that kind of argument, imagine a carpenter complaining that they have to buy wood and nails. Besides, a Qt license for small businesses is nowhere near thousands of dollars. Only in software development do we expect quality tools to be given to us free of charge with no strings attached.

Qt for Application Development Professional (ADP) is 3460 €/Year.

If you're making something which you sell for $50 or so you'd need 100 sales per year to just pay for the development environment. That also assumes that it took you less than a year to make said product.

'Qt for Application Development Enterprise - Small Business (ADE-SB)' is $499.

You're right. I didn't see the Small Business tab when I was quickly looking through it.

Still ends up being a blocker when you're not sure how many copies of the product you'll sell.

I guess that is just one of the many risks you have to take if your trying to build a business. A couple of hundred dollars in licensing fees are not going to sink your product. For a side project that you don't expect to make any money it might be too much, but in that case you could just as well open source the project.

> but in that case you could just as well open source the project.

Which doesn't necessarily mean you cannot get paid for it.

It's also worth considering that the value of this license is very likely not a net loss even if your initial product doesn't work out.

Your take is very weird.

He's shopping around. When something is out of his budget it's natural to not buy.

wood makes sense to pay for. wood doesn't grow on trees. software works a bit differently though it should also be paid for

It's especially hard when the application you're building isn't yet proven. As there's no guarantee that it will get any sales, let alone enough to cover the Commercial Qt expenses.

You do not have to pay before your first sale.

And $500 is laughable small compared to developer salary. If it saves you half a day of work, you are covered

There is a huge gulf between saving a half a day of work versus _having_ $500 to spend on a tool that would save you that half day of work.

Microsoft, as they have acquired both github and npm

The problem here is not npm or the package itself.

The absurdity of 140k weekly downloads is a result of CI/CD practices.

I'm probably in the minority here but I think npm and github should actively disallow (or atleast discourage by making it very uncomfortable) to re-download the same dependencies from the internet on every pull request.

Cool. The only thing I was aware of is this one:

    "features": {
        "copilot": false
    }

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Yea, it's unfortunate.

I also find their layout "framework"/API to be weird and counter intuitive.

Also many of us were much younger, even teenagers, with little to no exposure to HR hell.

Many weren't, too.

Sorry I'm not reallying buying this as an organic unforseen set of events.

It all looks staged or planned by someone or something.

The key to find out is to look for a business move that used to be illegal but now became legal due to the unfolding events.