It's completely fine for someone working on a programming language that is useful for some of the same things as Rust to compare that language to Rust, including in ways that make the language not seem as good. Indeed, this is useful information for someone who is using Rust and is considering using Zig (or vice-versa), or who is new to both languages and trying to figure out which is better for their use case.
You seem to be running a lot of interference in this thread. In what way is the tone of the linked messages appropriate?
> it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining losers eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. > More importantly, Actions is created by monkeys This writing really does not reflect well on Zig. If you have technical issues with Github, fine: cite them. But leave ad ho…
The unfortunate truth is that this is where we are as a society. It doesn't reflect poorly on them. It reflects well. They're straightshooters. Theyre not afraid to speak candidly (your definition of candid may differ). They inject humor. You may not like it personally, but it doesn't reflects poorly even if it should. We're at the tail end of a long decline.
Calling people monkeys and losers doesn't particularly tickle my sense of humor. If anything, it reminds me of Linus Torvalds from his toxic ages. Fortunately, he has matured well. Andrew seems like a smart guy, I hope that he will have the emotional maturity to realize that you can be no-bullshit and straight to the point without the need to call people names.
Issues and Pull requests are only optional features . Open source projects could always use GitHub as just git host/mirror like how torvalds/linux is setup .
PRs are not optional: there is no way to disable them on GitHub. I can't be sure that this is intentional, but it certainly works out well for them that this is one of many properties which make it quite difficult to migrate away from the platform.
I guess you could make a bot that closes any opened PR with a message that PRs are not accepted on Github and a link to the contribution docs.
I'm excited to see this migration happen, mostly because it signals to us ( https://tangled.org ) that large projects are willing to switch! We're working pretty hard to get Tangled out of alpha—we want it to be the place for free software communities. Also recently wrote about our vision and commitment to indies and communities (and never enterprise!): https://anirudh.fi/future
Aside: Bluesky PDSes are configured to let you upload up to 100MB per blob. Perhaps it might be worth exploring as a medium for hosting release artifacts? Maybe the web interface can merge multiple blobs as fragments of large release files exceeding 100MB (or 15MB for PDSes using the out-of-box config which seems to be the case for Tangled’s instance)
> it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining losers eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. > More importantly, Actions is created by monkeys This writing really does not reflect well on Zig. If you have technical issues with Github, fine: cite them. But leave ad ho…
> it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining losers eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. > More importantly, Actions is created by monkeys This writing really does not reflect well on Zig. If you have technical issues with Github, fine: cite them. But leave ad ho…
The "monkeys" here are clearly refering to those kinds with typewriters.
Some of the best news I have read all week. We do not need to bend the knee to US megacorporations & proprietary code forges for open source. I hope this causes bigger discussions—especially including locking chat to platforms like Discord along the same lines.
I'm excited to see this migration happen, mostly because it signals to us ( https://tangled.org ) that large projects are willing to switch! We're working pretty hard to get Tangled out of alpha—we want it to be the place for free software communities. Also recently wrote about our vision and commitment to indies and communities (and never enterprise!): https://anirudh.fi/future
Aside: Bluesky PDSes are configured to let you upload up to 100MB per blob. Perhaps it might be worth exploring as a medium for hosting release artifacts? Maybe the web interface can merge multiple blobs as fragments of large release files exceeding 100MB (or 15MB for PDSes using the out-of-box config which seems to be the case for Tangled’s instance)
You can already do this for tags, but manually. Via CI, you’ll need to set an app password and use goat (https://tangled.org/oppi.li/goat) or similar.
> Putting aside GitHub’s relationship with ICE, it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining losers eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. This says more about the author than anything else.
That they don't support a nationalistic paramilitary organization that requires its members to be masked and never known by the public so they cant be held accountable? A nationalized KKK is not something to ever support.