Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

Post by bean469 » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 9:57 AM UTC

the__alchemist wrote: post #654

bitbasher wrote: post #2

I'm happy to see the move. Codeberg is probably a more stable/long-term solution than SourceHut as the founder is slightly unhinged (but love what he has built). Honestly, either would have been great choices. More opensource projects should move off GitHub. I moved off it myself.

I am getting fatigued by all of these. I am learning about a new one each time. We have - GitHub - BinCode - GitLab - SourceHut - CodeBerg They all seem to do roughly the same things, but with a different web UI. Competition is great! Especially in response to a big corp that has market share. But... there was value in the centralization of GH.

Not all of those are free software, though, so comparing them might not be correct

Post by cxr » Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 12:19 AM UTC

antirez wrote: post #494

Wow. I think that's a serious mistake. Maybe GitHub is no longer so great and snappy but nowhere to justify moving something that needs: 1. Money, 2. Exposition, to something obscure just because it's a bit better. It's Git with an UI anyway, there isn't such large difference. I don't care about the fact the post is harsh: it's the content that it is broken from my POV because. It is absolutely legit to do something…

> let's zoom on this issue root cause. It is the classical developer intolerance for tool that are not "as they wish/think", which is very common among technical people, but is a POV, I mean this "tool oriented" workflow, where this little feature/customization matters so much in your life (instead of adapting a bit and do not care), that I believe is a problem in our industry

Prospective Zig contributors can just adapt a bit and not care about the fact that the project isn't hosted on GitHub, then.

Right?

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