I have no idea what Gleam or Tangled is, so for me this headline might as well be an article from The Onion satirizing HN. I also refuse to believe any of these two things are large enough, like say Postgres, that one can claim everyone should know it. Surely writing an informative headline for ”hackers in general” can’t be that difficult.
Have you ever contemplated the true performance of SQLite? Expensify reached 4M point database queries per second, and an artificial (more like parser-testing, not database-touching) 160M qps.
If your backend is on a single machine of predictable performance, and you properly index your queries, and you don't require remote DB connections, you don't need anything else but SQLite for 95% of use cases.
I’m an Organic Maps user and from a cursory glance I can see no reason to use CoMaps instead, it looks like the same app and I’d wish they’d make an attempt to clearer differentiate themselves since this will be an obvious question.
This is just a variant of the argument ”people don’t know what’s good for them”. You’re very close to the actual answer, which is that the aforementioned ”manager class” is simply convinced that they understand reality better than those below them, which is quite frankly absurd considering the fact that managers very rarely do any of the ”real work” that these tools supposedly make redundant, and yet they still believe themselves to understand the potential better.
So your success criteria for ”FLOSS works” is that zero people involved in it experience stress related issues?
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