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> shows how niche development for that platform Alternatively: GitHub is still, despite belief to the contrary on places like HN, not synonymous with open sour
by cxr 6y ago
> shows how niche development for that platform
Alternatively: GitHub is still, despite belief to the contrary on places like HN, not synonymous with open source, let alone the entire world of software development. Each is a (limited) projection of that world. When you speak of them together, you are referring to two things, each belonging to a distinctly identifiable milieu. What you're observing is that the overlap between them is small.
- habosa 6y agoIf GitHub isn't synonymous with open source, what is?
- jcelerier 6y agonot everything needs a synonym
- ad404b8a372f2b9 6y agoConceptually sure, but in practice is there actually a place where open source developers for apple products gather? On a related note, do you guys know of other, lesser known, websites where specific niches of developers hang out? I mostly stick to github and rarely I'll go to sourceforge and gitlab but I haven't noticed patterns of specialties in their users. In the past I knew some semi-private German communities for reverse engineering but recently (2010+) it seems everything is getting more and more centralized and you can't find those kind of places anymore. I'd love to find some small communities of passionate people, not yet overrun by the mainstream crowd.