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Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
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Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#262Github is fine. It just has serious issues with the huge amount of traffic.
I bet they will sort it out, and is most likely a top priority.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#263So like: not to hijack thread -- but is there any way to post about what you've built on HN without making people angry if its vibe coded? What's the etiquette there because I have a thingy I am going to post soon (open source, non commerical) and don't really want to be ripped apart by HN. I am a software engineer but doubt that matters if it's all vibe coded.
If you aren't willing to be ripped apart then posting isn't the right move, simple as that. Public critique is part of sharing your work in any space, HN included.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
"single binary, no dependencies besides crypto" would be an advantage, "written in Rust" tells nothing, except (successfully) trying to clickbait
There is no lie or misleading information about rust in the title so it’s clearly not clickbait.
> There is no lie or misleading information about rust in the title so it’s clearly not clickbait.
That’s not what clickbait means at all.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#265Earlier 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…
"single binary, no dependencies besides crypto" would be an advantage, "written in Rust" tells nothing, except (successfully) trying to clickbait
It expresses the exact same thing you've just said and more with fewer words.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
Zig and probably Pascal have the same advantage, can't speak for Ada as I've never built it. C and C++? You've got to be joking. If the project provides static binaries, sure, but I don't want to have to worry about finding a necronomicon and summoning the correct kind of imp required to properly use whatever insane build system the project is using.
And thus, we all agree that Linux, Windows, and OS X are all bad software, because they're written in C and C++ and have insanely complicated build systems.
Is that even controversial?
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#267Please, stop using "written in Rust" as some kind of advantage or killer feature.
From what I can see, it would be more accurate if they wrote "slopped by LLMs" :-) I am indeed curious to see how an agent-coded project turns out in the long term. Coherencey from LLMs decreases as the source increases in volume, waiting to see how this all turns out.
If the design was done with Claude Code/Design it would be a lot better than this imo. Bland, but better.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#268Please, stop using "written in Rust" as some kind of advantage or killer feature.
This drives me nuts too and your comment is justified.
Recently encountered someone going 'full crab' with rust & vk trying to chase perf, they were not happy when some thoughtfully written modern JS beat the brakes off it even with the overhead of the browser (~2000fps vs 750)
This kind of thoughtless "its rust!!!" shit causes people who don't know better to waste time chasing their tails. Claude seems to encourage it :\
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#269Interesting. It seems that perhaps a good mental model for solutions like this is to start federating to each other rather than to centralize and create replacement walled gardens. Mastodon style activity feeds might be a good starting point for this.
The value of Github is not just hosting projects and issue tracking but the notion that it's probably the largest professional network of developers that can interact with each other, create pull requests and issues on each other's projects, etc. There are many GH alternatives but very few with the same global network of essentially almost every developer out there.
Instead of everybody creating new accounts on each other's not quite Github clones with only a handful of users, why not improve on the state of the art here and allow people to use their user account from a server of their choice and create a proper alternative to Github?
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#270this thing looks slopped together in day. I don't even know what I'm looking at when I go to the home page. Good luck with it, but I think you have a VERY long road ahead of you.
Personally if I wanted to leave Github, I would just move over to Gitlab.