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

Post by xena » Wed, Aug 04, 2021, 7:12 PM UTC

crazy_horse wrote: post #47

agumonkey wrote: post #43

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i was annoyed by the hyperbolic ambitious claims but if the guy and his friends pour out solid code then there's nothing else to say :) also they seem to aim at frugal fat free programming, i cannot not like that

Those that lie often either don't respect other people or they don't have the ability to know when they are lying. Which is scarier? Go, Nim, and Zig have similar focuses and their devs have put in years of public, good work. Some of the take downs at the time he was making his initial claims are absolutely brutal and make it clear that he not only couldn't back up his crazy claims, he wasn't getting the small stuff…

Post by orra » Wed, Aug 04, 2021, 7:19 PM UTC

edgyquant wrote: post #4

lbotos wrote: post #2

Unfortunately this will probably run afoul of Git's trademark: "In addition, you may not use any of the Marks as a syllable in a new word or as part of a portmanteau (e.g., "Gitalicious", "Gitpedia") used as a mark for a third-party product or service without Conservancy's written permission. For the avoidance of doubt, this provision applies even to third-party marks that use the Marks as a syllable or as part of a…

How do gitlab, github, gitea, etc get away with it then?

Post by amedvednikov » Wed, Aug 04, 2021, 8:08 PM UTC

sdesol wrote: post #87

penagwin wrote: post #33

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> 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…

As the author states, he is not working alone as the following shows: https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?p=impa... When you have a large number of people in Zone 2 and nobody in Zone 1, this is a very good sign that effort is being fairly distributed. And if you look at the activity for the last year: https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?q=comm... it is extremely active with 98% da…

Post by amedvednikov » Wed, Aug 04, 2021, 8:09 PM UTC

the_duke wrote: post #75

yongjik wrote: post #72

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Some points in that page don't seem like valid criticism. Like, complaining that the compiler is not "zero dependency" on Linux, because it depends on glibc? Also, allocating a fixed 1000 byte region at the start of a program is not a "memory leak". In fact even glibc has tons of such "initial fixed cost" allocations - IIRC valgrind has built-in "suppression file" to ignore these allocations. (It would be a memory le…

IIRC one of the original claims was to skip libc and do syscalls manually, like Go used to do on Linux. So listing it makes sense in that context.

Post by amedvednikov » Wed, Aug 04, 2021, 8:12 PM UTC

pokstad wrote: post #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.