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Re: Software galaxies

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Post by mgnienie »

KolmogorovComp wrote: post #27
Arch-TK wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming this was done in free time, for fun and posted here because it looks cool, why would you hold these expectations? This is the kind of expectations you should have of a commercial product that you're paying for. Not of someone's random side project.

As you’ve said given it's a project done in their freetime I don’t have any expectations. At the same time when I design a project I want to share to others (in my free-time too), I always think about making it working for the majority of the users (mobile in that case).

It's for us geeks, not the majority :)

Re: Software galaxies

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Post by witx »

This is such a cool visualization. It's so interesting to see that Rust's embedded libraries are on a more separate, dense, group.

Re: Software galaxies

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Post by dirkc »

Wow, I love this. A long time ago I did some dependency graphs for gentoo linux packages [1] and also for a django project [2]. I put all the packages on a circle with dependencies being drawn as lines. This is so much cooler!

[1] https://www.thebacklog.net/2011/04/04/a-nice-picture-of-depe... [2] https://www.thebacklog.net/2012/10/13/visualizing-lernantas-...

Re: Software galaxies

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Post by smartmic »

Impressive visualization, for sure. But a honest question: What are real use cases of such a representation? I mean, can (and will) this be used in a productive manner for solving what kind of problems?

Re: Software galaxies

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Post by ordu »

smartmic wrote: post #44

Impressive visualization, for sure. But a honest question: What are real use cases of such a representation? I mean, can (and will) this be used in a productive manner for solving what kind of problems?

The only use I can imagine is to use it to write a guide on the available software. You can pick from the image clusters and make them into chapters in your guide or something like.

Re: Software galaxies

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Post by wiz21c »

When you imagine that each dot is a program and that behind each of these dots, there is at least on person, it gives a very good appreciation of how complex each of these projects are. These are pretty big human architectures..

Re: Software galaxies

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Post by yayr »

just to be a bit astronomically nitpicky ... ;-)

they are more like star clusters than galaxies. Galaxies usually have a lot of mostly circular momentum with arms forming etc.

might be even the better marketing term "Software star clusters"

not to mention the widely accepted hypothesis that galaxies require dark matter to be held together... we don't want to dive into the analogy here for software, or do we? ;-)

Re: Software galaxies

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Post by HPsquared »

yayr wrote: post #48

just to be a bit astronomically nitpicky ... ;-) they are more like star clusters than galaxies. Galaxies usually have a lot of mostly circular momentum with arms forming etc. might be even the better marketing term "Software star clusters" not to mention the widely accepted hypothesis that galaxies require dark matter to be held together... we don't want to dive into the analogy here for software, or do we? ;-)

Not to be confused with Github stars and their social dynamics.
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