Funny thing. I regularly look at people's code. I probably peruse the .NET std libs and garbage collector code daily along with gnu libc and musl sources (mostly looking for hidden cryptographic functions). I pop through Damus and other C apps like strfry and such. I learn so much by looking though other projects code. I read TLDR and look through the code of FOSS apps if it's doing something I'm interested in daily.
My thoughts in FOSS.
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I will usually check in to see what nostr:npub1wqfzz2p880wq0tumuae9lfwyhs8uz35xd0kr34zrvrwyh3kvrzuskcqsyn has been up to also.
That's why you're good. 🤷♀️
You're not the sort of programmer he's worried about having a look at his code, tho, as you're just curious and learning new techniques or how to implement some NIP.
You still go build your own thing, often in a different language, which is too much effort for a copy-cat.
I mean, we used to reverse-engineer implementations from compiled code, and you can soon probably have AI do that for you.
yeah, at some point soon hiding code will be a waste of time and cheap to reverse