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Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

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Post by alexpadula »

analog_daddy wrote: post #141
smetannik wrote: post #134

Please, stop using "written in Rust" as some kind of advantage or killer feature.

No, it is an advantage. I am not a rust evangelist, I am not a rust programmer or programmer at all; however while evaluating tools to use, anything written in Rust and Go at-least gets me to look at the project in more detail, since they most likely are able to ship statically linked binaries, which has been one of the key criteria for my personal evaluation of tools to select and use. So, you might not consider it…

You can write git in any language, I don't see an advantage doing it in Rust besides the community and potential of promotion to that community.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

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Post by alexpadula »

screamingninja wrote: post #10

> 5. What features will gitdot not have? > AI. > We view AI as an implementation detail — and do not think that using it is necessarily good. > In fact, we think it makes many products worse by acting as a bandaid for poor design. > That isn’t to say we are blind to it, but that we will be judicious in our use of it instead. Not sure I follow. What feature are the developers referring to? I understand that AI will po…

I don't get that. https://gitdot.io/bkdevs/gitdot/gitdot-api/CLAUDE.md they use agent files in every repo directory for the gitdot code.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

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Post by kode-targz »

usrbinenv wrote: post #80

No mobile version, but I'm visiting from a tablet, should work at least if switch to "Desktop" in the browser manually. I don't care if I get horizontal scroll - not showing your visitors anything at all is an automatic "I'm out". Second, when I browsed from an actual desktop, and clicked on links for files it was all slow as hell - specifically the part when you click on a file an expect it to just load, you instead…

absolutely this, and I feel the same way about finding it unappealing due to the inconsistency between their "talk" and their "walk". If you preach minimalism but use React or anything similar, you've lost the plot and don't understand what minimalism is at all.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

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Post by giancarlostoro »

alexpadula wrote: post #151
analog_daddy wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it is an advantage. I am not a rust evangelist, I am not a rust programmer or programmer at all; however while evaluating tools to use, anything written in Rust and Go at-least gets me to look at the project in more detail, since they most likely are able to ship statically linked binaries, which has been one of the key criteria for my personal evaluation of tools to select and use. So, you might not consider it…

You can write git in any language, I don't see an advantage doing it in Rust besides the community and potential of promotion to that community.

Sure, but we're talking about a git web UI with a little icing, not a git replacement (at least in most cases). Even so, Rust and Go web projects are much more lighterweight than projects in most other languages, with drastically less effort towards performance, and use less resources as a result, requiring less hardware to operate.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

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Post by esafak »

baepaul wrote: post #22
eqvinox wrote: post #9

What's the differentiation against Forgejo going to be?

forgejo is a pretty great piece of software. a lot of this we've really come to know as we dug into both it, gittea, gitlab, and all of their internals. i think the short answer as to a differentiator is design. our goal's to just build the best product possible, one that we'd love to use and one that we hope developers do too. some of the stuff we've been thinking about include: stacked diffs as PR primitive, a Nix-…

Is jj a first class citizen?

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

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Post by zellyn »

smetannik wrote: post #134

Please, stop using "written in Rust" as some kind of advantage or killer feature.

Oh stop being silly. Yes, the programming language is technically irrelevant in that they’re all Turing complete.

In reality, the programming language tells you all kinds of subtle things: probabilities about the way the software will feel to use, how stable it’s likely to be, how fast, what the author is likely to focus on.

I found one of the best jobs of my life in 2015 by asking “who’s doing interesting things in Atlanta in Go?” Not because I was uncompromisingly settled on Go, but because in 2015, using Go (often) connoted a certain approach, a certain type of engineering, a certain constellation of values.

So please stop pretending the whole gestalt of programming languages and their communities don’t deeply affect the resulting software.

(I say this with no unkindness intended, mostly to all of hackernews)

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

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Post by dang »

alexpadula wrote: post #148
dang wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

" Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " " Don't be snarky. " " Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. " Obviously this is a project at an early stage and the title expresses what they're working on, not a claim to 100% feature parity…

It's pretty honest, some times you have to be.

There are many ways to be honest, and some of them are within the site guidelines. Commenters should be honest in those ways.
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