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Now we just need Apple's Objective C / Swift to move to github. :) Sorry, not going to happen. :(
Apple has stated that they're going to open source Swift in the future, who cares if they choose to host it on their own platform.
Google hosting Go on GitHub. Microsoft hosting .NET on GitHub. It must feel like an accomplishment to be implicitly endorsed by these companies. Considering open source's history, you'd think its primary management tool would be open source as well. I guess it's GitHub's combination of accessible design + performant version control + lack of ads + reliability that made it the premium source for anything open source.…
Emacs moved to GitHub as well :)
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Admitting Code is going nowhere, and seemingly for the first time in living memory, playing geek marketing catch-up with Microsoft :) I really love the new MS.
As someone has already mentioned Google already has stuff on Github. Dart: https://github.com/dart-lang And lots of other stuff: https://github.com/google
The writing's on the wall for Google Code. I don't think I've seen a new feature in several years.
I think Google stopped bothering with Google Code when Github came to popularity. Google Code doesn't really fill Google's mission, so it's not absurd for them not to bother once someone who's truly focused on the space has created a superior competitor.
Google wanted to create a place open source people actually wanted to be, and had reliable hosting, instead of a place people had to sadly live with that was pretty unreliable (no offense meant to my friends at sourceforge).
Doing so jump started some competition in this space.
While github is slowly becoming a monoculture again, it doesn't appear to slowly be growing crappier or less reliable.
I'm sure in 5-10 years something like Google Code will be necessary again.
(Google code was the first engineering project I worked on at Google, for a few years starting in 2006).
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I'm curious what Gerrit gets them that Github doesn't have natively, too.
Go team member here. I've used five different code review tools, and Github is the worst of the five. I regularly bug them (Github) about this, and they know it. I hear rumors they've been working on it a lot. Github's review mechanisms barely scratch the surface of what's possible.
The writing's on the wall for Google Code. I don't think I've seen a new feature in several years.
I'd love for them to just go read only, a TON of academic work lives on there, but its awful to use.
(Though, a small part of me wants mercurial to live on, but it doesn't seem like that will happen)
I think this is Google quietly admitting that Google Code is all but dead. They will not completely get rid of it, but I would not be surprised if they switch it to read only mode sometime soon. This is a momentous move for Github, especially with Microsoft moving .NET to Github as well. As someone who loves Github immensely, this makes me happy knowing that my favourite service is going to be around for a very long…
Go was on Mercurial before so it was already away from any Google own source control system.
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The portion of that material which is requisite is obviously a strict subset of the entirety of the material. But, for one to flippantly say "I've read it" without even establishing what "it" is, seems a bit dismissive and duplicitous to me. Regardless it is obvious to anyone who is knowledgeable that Rob Pike has not read what most who are in the know would consider "requisite". Also, if you take a look at the threa…
Rob didn't really say anything about map, filter, and reduce in that thread. His comments should be taken as being in addition to the earlier comments by Ian Lance Taylor, another member of the Go team. You should address the gaps in your own knowledge before criticising others. For instance, you're obviously unaware that Rob designed and implemented a whole language based around map/reduce/filter style operations: h…
That's just really poor (and silly) reasoning honestly. A 12-yr old could look deeper. For instance:
-. Is 'writing' code all that matters?
-. Aren't there in fact 10s or 100s or 1000s more readers to code than writers (including the original author also as a reader)?
-. Do readers like to scroll between various blocks of logic and divine signal from noise by teaching their brain to ignore boilerplate?
-. And what if the brain at first sees something as boilerplate but only upon further examination finds a subtle difference in the pattern for this one rare instance?
-. And what if that happens when the programmer is investigating a long-standing bug that has just resulted in a great loss of human life (and will continue to do so)?