Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
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Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#2More and more projects are moving to Codeberg, and I'm wondering; at what point will a critical mass be reached? Or will we end up with a fragmented ecosystem?
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#3previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064571
Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg - 883 comments
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#4More and more projects are moving to Codeberg, and I'm wondering; at what point will a critical mass be reached? Or will we end up with a fragmented ecosystem?
I prefer a pletora of code hosting sites, that one massive hub controlled by a single one. We can see how bad is when there is a monopoly or cuasi-monopoly.
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#5More and more projects are moving to Codeberg, and I'm wondering; at what point will a critical mass be reached? Or will we end up with a fragmented ecosystem?
> fragmented ecosystem
This sounds a bit like an oxymoron. More diversity will only help the ecosystem IMHO.
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#6More and more projects are moving to Codeberg, and I'm wondering; at what point will a critical mass be reached? Or will we end up with a fragmented ecosystem?
You say fragmented I say decentralized.
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#7Lack of investment more like. There are a ton of simple and obvious bugs that have persisted well before the AI crazy, e.g. this annoying bug from 2021: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/6874
This one is almost a one-line change (technically they need an extra flag in the YAML but that's hardly difficult): https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/12882#discussi...
That said, I still think Github is fine, and you can't argue with free CI - especially on Windows/Mac. If they ever stop that I'll definitely consider Codeberg. Or if Codeberg gets support for stacked PRs (i.e. dependencies between PRs), then I'm there! So frustrating that Github doesn't support such an obvious workflow.
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#8More and more projects are moving to Codeberg, and I'm wondering; at what point will a critical mass be reached? Or will we end up with a fragmented ecosystem?
You say fragmented I say decentralized.
I say "I'm not making yet another account to report this bug". Tangled is trying to solve that problem but we'll see.
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#9In other news today, Bun, which is one of the biggest projects written in Zig, joined Anthropic, the company behind Claude Code, and has nothing but kind words to say about AI. If Zig becomes ever more hostile to AI, I wonder if there may be some "friction" there.
Re: Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
#10They also made the disastrous update to the dashboard feed which made the frontpage pretty much useless.