What blobs?

I dug a bit deeper after you asked because "compiled or obfuscated code blobs" was the wording from EuroOffice. It doesn't seem like they shipped binary objects hidden inside the editor source tree after a quick glance.

I guess they used "binary blobs" in the broad FOSS-maintainer sense, e.g. bundled third-party assets, fonts, generated/minified JavaScript in sdkjs, and possibly precompiled mobile components...

However, onlyoffice removed their mobile editor repo from Github a few days ago, and EuroOffice has been particularly critical of the mobile apps, claiming they contained proprietary sections. So if there is a concrete concern behind the "binary blobs" accusation, the mobile side seems like the most likely place it was directed at.

It feels a bit like a mudslinging match right now and you were completely right to question the claim :-)

This is what I saw in their site. Thanks for taking the time to double check. Given the anti-Russian propaganda I am very suspicious. I mostly use Libeoffice + ODT or Latex, but occasionally a researcher shares a docx for review. This where Onlyoffice shines.

There is OnlyOffice

I started migrating away for VSCode, piece by piece.

But if you need it:

Theia/Positron/VSCodium

For Python/Julia? Many alternatives. For C family? Similar Java/Go? Similar.

I keep VSCode because their seamless SSH integration (remote files editing) is so damn good.

Filezilla Portable for me. I never use SSH through VSCode. Most of the people I work with, do.

VSCode is a binary product and therefore it is dangerous.

There are many open source alternatives/upgrades to M$$$ products.

No reason to keep using them. Literally none.

I have been a happy exclusive only user of OO/LibeOffice since 2004. Some times I needed to use MSOffice for a paper. It was always problematic.

I haven't use VS since 2007. I migrated to gcc. Never had a problem.

SQLServer? Only for demo and at work just to pull or save data. Postgres always saved the day. Windows Media Player? MPClassic or VLC worked fine.

There maybe other alternatives I use without knowing. Always without problems.

I think you are missing the point.

It’s about software preservation and abiding by the implied expectations at the time of sale.

M$$$ and other companies don't give a damn for software preservation.

We do as a community.

Many open source Windows deserve preservation. Even if they are abandoned.

But blobs? No way.

I gave you an upvote. How many downvotes did you get?

We need more C11 and C23 compilers.

We need more betterC compilers, we have one (five if you count C3, ZenC, SafeC and Zig but they are not betterC)

And we need more assemblers.

Amazon taxes books through shipping. It is a plan.

You can write C style C++ and enjoy the same benefits.

In Twitter a user explained me that it is common in embedded space.

You do not need the OOP, RTTI, exceptions.

Like C with most use cases of preprocessor replaced by generic programming.

So? How is that an argument that C++ is more performant than C? It's only an argument that it's not less performant.

Because you can write C like code, while taking advantage of templates, compile time code execution, and eventually static reflection, that prepare work ahead of time, while at the same time giving more information to optimiser passes.

It is an argument that you can make a faster C-like if you like out of C++

JVM languages to Rust, I understand it somehow.

But Go to Rust???

It does not make any sense.

They run a Rust consultancy business. Anything is worth converting to Rust, for the right price.

The Greeks really wallow in 17 year long court cases?

That seems a bit far fetched.

It's just usual justice when the defendants have a lot of very expensive lawyers.