Comment by narrator
8 months ago
That sounds like the early 90s when you had to pay for all dev tools and even pay royalties for how many copies of your product you sold with that library. Most people had to roll their own crappy half-assed homebrew data structures because otherwise you'd have to pay for expensive libraries.
Interesting reference as more and more people long for the a comeback of the old days in tech.
I remember when c++ shipped with a standard library with data structures and I was very impressed that they were free.