GitHub Discussions is out of beta • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by GSGBen » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 9:09 PM UTC

cfeliped wrote: post #11

alberth wrote: post #4

Given that GitHub is a large Ruby on Rails app, I’m surprised we haven’t seen Microsoft doing more to improve the performance of Ruby language given they are one of a small handful of companies that have deep language/compiler talent. (Don’t take this as me knocking Microsoft. The speed of development on GitHub, VS Code and even Microsoft 365 has been phenomenal.)

VS Code is really great for the amount of features it has. GitHub is okay-ish. But Office 365? Teams is prob one of the worst apps I use nowadays. It consumes so much memory and cpu you would think it's actually mining crypto. Outlook is also a joke. Excel got better IMO. No strong opinions for other apps.

Do you mean the web-based Outlook? I find the traditional desktop Outlook is unbeaten for business email/calendar. Strongly agree on Teams though.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by jms55 » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 9:24 PM UTC

theptip wrote: post #15

Interesting. I wonder how this will interact with StackOverflow. On one hand, it will tend to give large projects with established communities a centralized location to handle questions which otherwise would be in a StackOverflow tag. Perhaps core developers would be interested in the community management features that Discussions offer, which would be harder to do in a world where questions get delegated to SO. And…

I think this is helpful because it keeps the "issues" tab cleaner. It's a place to discuss initial ideas without finding the maintainers on discord or something, to get feedback on whether the idea is worth implementing a PR for or not, etc.Similarly, it can be used for announcements about the project, polls to the community, etc.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by nojvek » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 9:37 PM UTC

ksec wrote: post #30

alberth wrote: post #4

Given that GitHub is a large Ruby on Rails app, I’m surprised we haven’t seen Microsoft doing more to improve the performance of Ruby language given they are one of a small handful of companies that have deep language/compiler talent. (Don’t take this as me knocking Microsoft. The speed of development on GitHub, VS Code and even Microsoft 365 has been phenomenal.)

I think they are still operate pretty much like a separate entity. But yes, I really wish there are at least 2 full time compiler developer at Github working on RubyVM.

Stripe is probably the second biggest Ruby place after GitHub. They have pretty good sized teams working on Ruby tools like Sorbet.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by cfeliped » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 9:58 PM UTC

pineconewarrior wrote: post #20

cfeliped wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VS Code is really great for the amount of features it has. GitHub is okay-ish. But Office 365? Teams is prob one of the worst apps I use nowadays. It consumes so much memory and cpu you would think it's actually mining crypto. Outlook is also a joke. Excel got better IMO. No strong opinions for other apps.

Curious - what is your preferred Git platform? We're about to migrate away from Bitbucket for... a lot of reasons.

I use GitLab professionally.

It used to be light years ahead of GitHub, but with actions, code spaces, private repos and Jira like stuff being released in GH that's not the case anymore.

IMO you can't go wrong with either GitLab or GitHub nowadays, both are great at what they do.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by lillecarl » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 11:41 PM UTC

nojvek wrote: post #33

ksec wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they are still operate pretty much like a separate entity. But yes, I really wish there are at least 2 full time compiler developer at Github working on RubyVM.

Stripe is probably the second biggest Ruby place after GitHub. They have pretty good sized teams working on Ruby tools like Sorbet.

A dynamically typed language like ruby doesn't sound as the language of choice for processing sensitive transactions without data loss. Ofc possible, but it sounds scary.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by cheshire137 » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 11:44 PM UTC

dessant wrote: post #14

Is there a way to learn that an issue has been converted to a discussion using the GitHub REST API? I'm having problems with GitHub actions attempting to comment on converted issues that no longer accept comments, and the API does not seem to offer a way to identify that an issue has been converted to a discussion.

Hi there! I’m a developer at GitHub, I’ll pass this on to the right team.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by xeromal » Thu, Aug 19, 2021, 4:07 AM UTC

systemvoltage wrote: post #3

All these features infested with emojis and negative space makes SourceHut such a refreshing take at UX/UI that is utilitarian, straightforward, ultra-functional and zero-tolerance for trendy-designer-bullshit. Exactly what engineering tools should be like. Unfortunately, I am in the minority here and most people find the UX/UI of Sourcehut ancient, unadorned and bland - IMO that’s a feature, not a bug. Check it out:…

Sourcehut is still in alpha and I cannot trust it until it's out otherwise.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by joelbluminator » Thu, Aug 19, 2021, 5:55 AM UTC

nojvek wrote: post #33

ksec wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they are still operate pretty much like a separate entity. But yes, I really wish there are at least 2 full time compiler developer at Github working on RubyVM.

Stripe is probably the second biggest Ruby place after GitHub. They have pretty good sized teams working on Ruby tools like Sorbet.

Shopify is the biggest Ruby company if you measure market value, they are currently worth 185 billion. It's not that far from Oracle's market value.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by Dowwie » Thu, Aug 19, 2021, 9:52 AM UTC

What are some novel use cases for the discussions GraphQL API? Synchronizing between chat servers and discussions is an obvious usage. Let's go further.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by Dowwie » Thu, Aug 19, 2021, 9:59 AM UTC

systemvoltage wrote: post #3

All these features infested with emojis and negative space makes SourceHut such a refreshing take at UX/UI that is utilitarian, straightforward, ultra-functional and zero-tolerance for trendy-designer-bullshit. Exactly what engineering tools should be like. Unfortunately, I am in the minority here and most people find the UX/UI of Sourcehut ancient, unadorned and bland - IMO that’s a feature, not a bug. Check it out:…

I agree with you.

Imagine that this comment were my only contribution to this message thread. Imagine that ten other people commented the same because the community was very engaged. Now, imagine that pattern of commenting across every discussion.

Would an emoticon have been better?