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Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by addaon »

miki123211 wrote: post #492
bayesnet wrote: post #72

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It greatly saddens me to see how little concern there is for accessibility for dev tooling. It says something about our industry that accessibility is often viewed as a “luxury” feature that can be dealt with once you’ve reached some level of success or revenue or whatever. I’m hopeful AI tools can improve qol for those who require screen readers and similar tools but have a sinking feeling that it will only transfer…

> It greatly saddens me to see how little concern there is for accessibility for dev tooling. This really depends on company size, and the company in question. Everything Microsoft does in this space is excellent, VS Code almost feels like an app specifically designed for the blind at times. Other large companies aren't as good, but their products are usually somewhat usable. Startups are a mixed bag, Zed is notoriou…

> Everything Microsoft does in this space is excellent, VS Code almost feels like an app specifically designed for the blind at times.

Yep. The start menu ads are also excellent as long as you're blind and can't see them.

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by wilg »

brendoelfrendo wrote: post #355
wilg wrote: post #270

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GitHub is definitely not making the world a worse place. Touch grass.

Ok, fine; that was hyperbole. They are incrementally making their product worse in very visible ways and for some reason refuse to fix it or change course. I mean, in introducing these inconveniences to their users they are technically making the world worse, but sure, not in a way that matters.

And that rises to the bar of "insult and denigrate people" to you? Because you're annoyed with their recent product decisions?

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by politelemon »

nmz wrote: post #801
mexicocitinluez wrote: post #781

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I'm not rooting for Microsoft, but comments like this: > with the remaining rookies eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. and > More importantly, Actions is created by monkeys are juvenile.

While juvenile, it is a fair point that github and all websites that ditch everything for javascript get less snappy to use.

Oh, so that makes the name calling justified.

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

Mawr wrote: post #853
MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #630

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Charlie Kirk was shot by a center-right guy on September 10, 2025? Luigi Mangione shot the UnitedHealthcare CEO December 4, 2024 and had an anti-capitalist manifesto, was he center right? What about Elias Rodriguez (leftist activist, Israeli Embassy Staff Shooting)? Michael Reinoehl (antifa) who shot Aaron Danielson? "No Kings" Vance Boelter who shot two politicians? "Anti-ICE" Joshua Jahn who killed two detainees an…

Am I to understand that all killers are leftist? It's either that, or you looked at the list of all killers and cherry-picked the leftist ones to make an argument.

No, my point was that "US leftists are leftist-light compared to the rest of the world" couldn't be further from the truth.

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by csto12 »

Jarred wrote: post #822
antirez wrote: post #494

Wow. I think that's a serious mistake. Maybe GitHub is no longer so great and snappy but nowhere to justify moving something that needs: 1. Money, 2. Exposition, to something obscure just because it's a bit better. It's Git with an UI anyway, there isn't such large difference. I don't care about the fact the post is harsh: it's the content that it is broken from my POV because. It is absolutely legit to do something…

Speaking as the creator of one of the largest Zig projects, I agree with antirez

As the creator of one of the larger Zig projects, does this announcement undermine your confidence in Zig at all? Either with the language used or the decision in itself?

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by johnsea »

johnsea wrote: post #844
antirez wrote: post #494

Wow. I think that's a serious mistake. Maybe GitHub is no longer so great and snappy but nowhere to justify moving something that needs: 1. Money, 2. Exposition, to something obscure just because it's a bit better. It's Git with an UI anyway, there isn't such large difference. I don't care about the fact the post is harsh: it's the content that it is broken from my POV because. It is absolutely legit to do something…

I was happy from the sideline seeing the recent big Zig donations. But this sudden decision is a shock. Technical issues can be worked around (I wish/think), but leaving such a dominant platform? I don't know. For my small small needs Forgejo works great, but for Zig, a project which I hope has a lot of mainstream success, I'm not convinced, that Forgejo/Codeberg is the best fit (atm). Even Graphene OS which has very…

Also Julia, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia

And https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig or e.g. https://github.com/haydenridd/silvia-pid-board

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by igor47 »

andrew_ wrote: post #764
MildlySerious wrote: post #579

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People protesting ICE do not do so out of political concern, but humanitarian concern. This seems like a minor nitpick as those two are intimately tangled up, but it matters to make the distinction. Standing up for others is not petty or self-serving and that's exactly what this sort of conflation can falsely imply.

It's virtue signaling plain and simple. People who crafted their identities around the current thing in ~2017 are religiously attached to having to be part of the in group and can't let it go, and it inevitably bubbles up like this. This will no doubt rankle those who align with that group, but they are a pathetic remnant of a terrible period of rampant sociopathy.

Though you will no doubt assume you're getting downvoted because you're speaking truth to sociopaths, I just wanted to say I'm downvoting you because your comment violates multiple HN guidelines. Reminder, those are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's disappointing to see such a long-term community member engage so thoughtlessly. I know the guidelines also say I should just flag and move on, but this will only reenforce your narrative, and I am hoping to break the cycle.

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by Jarred »

csto12 wrote: post #875
Jarred wrote: post #822

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Speaking as the creator of one of the largest Zig projects, I agree with antirez

As the creator of one of the larger Zig projects, does this announcement undermine your confidence in Zig at all? Either with the language used or the decision in itself?

> undermine your confidence in Zig

Nah

I do think the combo of not using Twitter, not using Discord, and not using GitHub does make it a bit more challenging for Zig to become a mainstream programming language. Twitter being the least important amongst those. Hard to say how much it matters in practice, as things tend to win on their strengths and not on lack of weakness

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by otabdeveloper4 »

testdelacc1 wrote: post #780
otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #685

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> You’ve abstracted them away as “Microsoft” No, they did this when they joined Microsoft, not me. You don't get to be "an actual person" when you're paid by Microsoft to write Microsoft code for a Microsoft product.

You’re talking about Microsoft like they’re ISIS or al-Qaeda. You sound unhinged. If you ask people “do Microsoft employees deserve to be treated as human beings”, 99.999999% of them will answer “yes of course”. People like you terrify me.

> If you ask people “do Microsoft employees deserve to be treated as human beings”

No, I'm asking if Microsoft emploee code gets to be judged as a work of a person instead of a corporation, and the answer is a resounding NO.

Nobody cares what Microserfs do in their personal life. (I'm sure they're great people, some of my closest relatives were Microserfs too.)

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by beAbU »

zipy124 wrote: post #753
monegator wrote: post #636

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that's a grifter doing grifting. there was a thread on /g/ about this guy the other day, anons digged out much of its past as a failure / grifter in many areas, running away with the money at the first problem

I'd be willing to put money that before LLMs they were all in ok crypto

When looking at this history here on HN, he started out in the poker world. I'm not sure if he played, but he wrote a poker engine or something. In my experience, the venn diagram for professional poker players, crypto enthusiasts and grifters have a lot of overlap.

But for this guy specifically there's practically complete radio silence during the crypto era. It's only recently with all the AI noise that he's become active here on HN again.

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