I wasn't able to find an open source alternative to Newrelic APM for ruby. Perforce is also something that's very useful for game development but relatively expensive.
Why’s perforce not replaceable by git?
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#22What do people use for self service embedded analytics in SaaS applications?
What are the closed source softwares that are used for this purpose?
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#233D CAD software is light years behind in the open source ecosystem, but competing with Solid Works or Auto Desk is a enormous task... Although Blender seems to be catching up in 3D animation!
CAD software like AutoCad does not have any good Open Source alternative. As it is mostly used by Civil Engineers, I think when the Civil Engineers will motivated by the Open Source manifesto, they will approach making soemthing good alternative of CAD software!
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#25I wasn't able to find an open source alternative to Newrelic APM for ruby. Perforce is also something that's very useful for game development but relatively expensive.
Why’s perforce not replaceable by git?
From what I've seen, perforce is better for storing binary intermediates.
Git doesn't work very well with partial or subfolder checkouts which is something you would need if you want to store intermediates. In games intermediates can take multiple hours to build (like maps). Building the game from scratch every commit like it's usually done with git CI tooling does not work very well.
We also ran into wanting to give modders access to maps and materials but not to game code.
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#26I wasn't able to find an open source alternative to Newrelic APM for ruby. Perforce is also something that's very useful for game development but relatively expensive.
Why’s perforce not replaceable by git?
Perforce has a locking mechanism for files, which is important for the large binary objects that are used in game development. Git doesn't really have that concept, so it requires more out of band communication to make it work for that use case.
Git LFS might handle this, but it's just not something that Perforce shops have to even think about, train their people on, etc. It's just "there" and there's somebody that they can call and yell at if things go wrong.
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#27Despite how great Inkscape is, it's no where near Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer (and you can't run them on WINE either).
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#283D CAD software is light years behind in the open source ecosystem, but competing with Solid Works or Auto Desk is a enormous task... Although Blender seems to be catching up in 3D animation!
CAD software like AutoCad does not have any good Open Source alternative. As it is mostly used by Civil Engineers, I think when the Civil Engineers will motivated by the Open Source manifesto, they will approach making soemthing good alternative of CAD software!
The crazy part is how expensive CAD software is. AutoCAD can be thousands of dollars a year and was created [1] 37 years ago!
The age of the product would surely reveal the difficulty of creating a competing product...
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#29Cisco Cloudcenter.
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#303D CAD software is light years behind in the open source ecosystem, but competing with Solid Works or Auto Desk is a enormous task... Although Blender seems to be catching up in 3D animation!
Openscad? Or that doesn’t do everything?