gpui itself is maintained by the folks at https://zed.dev.

Also, Longbridge, who seem to be using this GPUI component library for their Longbridge Pro [1] app, look to me like a regular online brokerage company. What is your issue with that?

1: https://longbridge.com/desktop/

zed looks nice, but I am going to wait until the American port to use it.

May I ask what you mean by this? For all I know, Zed Industries Inc is incorporated in the US and funded by US venture capital.

BTW, I am not associated with zed in any way.

Its a stupid joke. Americans say Z==Zee, rest of the Anglosphere says Z==Zed

Thanks for the explanation :)

thanks for explaining, i was really lost on what this person meant by that

Bitcoin ethos (as in, the original 'banks are broken, let's fix this') is kinda similar to the hacker ethos ('this thing/program is broken, let's fix this'), so maybe this shouldn't be too surprising? Short term pain for long term gain etc.

(disclaimer: I think bitcoin is dumb, but the market disagrees)

> (disclaimer: I think bitcoin is dumb, but the market disagrees)

I believe that market is quite controversial. Most people know that bitcoin is a bit dump, but they buy it regardless because they believe they profit from it when they do that as part of larger group. A very interesting social experiment with the mix of market manipulation. It is less about stability, independence or usability of the currency, but more about the opportunity of profit.

> I find it sad that a lot of foundational open-source software is created/maintained by trading/crypto/money laundering companies. But OTOH it's great that they at least contribute _something_ to the society!

React is unfortunately becoming more foundational than this project, and with it maintained by a company that was involved in the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and so on.

This makes crypto / trading companies look like angels compared to what Facebook has done even though they made and open sourced React.

To that end, I don't see anything morally wrong with the former camp of companies supporting open source, (trading/crypto) since they didn't participate and amplify an actual genocide.

I don't believe that to be the case. The ecosystems where this is most true would be Rust, which has a lot of crypto use, and maybe ocaml from Jane Street. But for the most part I have to doubt this.

I doubt that a lot of it is.