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As other people noticed, this isn't really a wiki, but attempt to emulate it on github. gitit is a proper git based markdown wiki that we have been using for ~
by sega_sai 6y ago
As other people noticed, this isn't really a wiki, but attempt to emulate it on github. gitit is a proper git based markdown wiki that we have been using for ~ 8 years. Everything works quite well, except for the fact it is in Haskell. Otherwise the main advantages obviously are the availability of pure wiki interface and possibility of locally editing a file in your own editor and pushing it. Also it is nice to be able to add a bunch of images without having to click many buttons through a simple git add; git commit; git push
- dllthomas 6y ago> Everything works quite well, except for the fact it is in Haskell. I don't understand how being written in Haskell can, itself, work well or poorly or not work from the point of view of a user. Did you mean "despite being written in Haskell", or are there usability concerns that are caused by it being written in Haskell? (... or is there some other interpretation I'm not seeing?)
- sega_sai 6y agoI wanted to implement a feature, like seing the most recent changes time, or fix a bug https://github.com/jgm/gitit/pull/388 https://github.com/jgm/gitit/pull/388 and to implement those I had to learn haskell. That wasn't easy... If the software were written in python/ruby/c/c++/php whatever it'd take me an order of magnitude less effort and time to fix/contribute.
- dllthomas 6y agoThat makes sense. Thank you for the clarity :)