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Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)

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Re: Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)

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V and it's creator get a lot of flack here on HN and the criticisms are probably warranted. However, I personally enjoy seeing them out here hustling and really trying to make their language succeed despite all the shortcomings. As someone who skews more apathetic, I enjoy seeing people driven by so much passion. Now, it's time for me to be one of those critics! It's easy to promote the speed and size of your github…

Can you perhaps link to some of said criticism? I'd be interested to read it.

Re: Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)

#33

V and it's creator get a lot of flack here on HN and the criticisms are probably warranted. However, I personally enjoy seeing them out here hustling and really trying to make their language succeed despite all the shortcomings. As someone who skews more apathetic, I enjoy seeing people driven by so much passion. Now, it's time for me to be one of those critics! It's easy to promote the speed and size of your github…

> V and it's creator get a lot of flack here on HN and the criticisms are probably warranted.

Hi fellow Penguin :D!

I'm impressed by the creator's dedication here too, but he's clearly biting off more then he can chew - he's been saying that he's making a

* Web framework * GUI framework * SQL ORM * A language that has a lot of promises - seriously checkout their list. * Github alternative * VIM alternative

This stuff is awesome as a project, but each one of these have teams of dedicated engineers sponsored by many companies to hammer out issues and make them as robust as possible. And while he certainly has working demo's of each, they're demos. There's a huge difference between a POC and a robust framework.

A half baked framework is useless sadly, I think he's spreading himself too thin while have a roadmap that looks like a programmer's christmas list.

Re: Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)

#35
Looks like V author/community is on the track to rewrite the world. Expect operating system stuff next? I'm shocked by how quickly it goes along, though. Gitly is quite usable already, and I appreciate the swiftness. I'd think that Rust community is rewriting the world, but it's happening at much slower pace. Is V's basis strong enough to do this? Seeing the issues like [1] (about the basic memory management stuff) open makes me suspicious.

[1] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/6456

Re: Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)

#36
post #35

Looks like V author/community is on the track to rewrite the world. Expect operating system stuff next? I'm shocked by how quickly it goes along, though. Gitly is quite usable already, and I appreciate the swiftness. I'd think that Rust community is rewriting the world, but it's happening at much slower pace. Is V's basis strong enough to do this? Seeing the issues like [1] (about the basic memory management stuff) o…

Already beat you to it https://github.com/vlang/vinix

Re: Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)

#37

Hi, Author of V and Gitly here. Gitly is currently in alpha, and works more like an example/documentation of the V web framework and V ORM. You can't even sign in at the moment. It will be launched this month. We're actually going to switch to Gitly CI, since Github Actions has been really slow for us.

You might have trademark issues with Gitlab's Gitaly https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly

Re: Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)

#38

Hi, Author of V and Gitly here. Gitly is currently in alpha, and works more like an example/documentation of the V web framework and V ORM. You can't even sign in at the moment. It will be launched this month. We're actually going to switch to Gitly CI, since Github Actions has been really slow for us.

Saw your hiring post - may I ask, what funding did you get?

Re: Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)

#39
Only 128MB of RAM? What happens when you try to GC a huge repo? This must mean only the non-git requirements. Under the covers either libgit2 or the git executable are being used, and those will use many resources depending on the operation.

Re: Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I would like to find a way to implement issue tracking into Git Maybe git-bug would work for you? https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

Thank you. I am interested, but am concerned by this statement: > This is now more than a proof of concept, but still not fully stable. Expect dragons and unfinished business

git-bug author here.

It's still not v1 where there would be some sort of backward compatibility guarantee, but it's close if you are using master. Note though that even without that guarantee, there is git-bug-migration to provide you some safety.

There is however some bugs and missing features, as in any software that young with an author busy buying/refurbishing an apartment ;)

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