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I've either never heard of or never bothered to pay attention to SourceHut. https://sourcehut.org/ https://sourcehut.org/ How did GitHub ever get so big when t

I've either never heard of or never bothered to pay attention to SourceHut. https://sourcehut.org/ https://sourcehut.org/ How did GitHub ever get so big when this exists? Is it because GH predates SourceHut? I'm not clear on when SH came into existence, but they have entries on their blog from 2019. > * Absolutely no tracking or advertising > * All features work without JavaScript > * Many features work without an account > * The fastest & lightest software forge [links to https://forgeperf.org/ https://forgeperf.org/ - which is very impressive] > * 100% free and open source software Edit: here's the actual "forge" site: https://sr.ht/ https://sr.ht/

Tomte 4y ago
I'm a paying customer, so I like SourceHut a lot, but it's easy to see why it won't be nearly as big as GitHub. * GitHub was much earlier * GitHub was backed by venture capital, and is now backed by Microsoft * GitHub doesn't force you to adopt an email-only workflow. Pull request are much maligned in tech circles (following Linus Torvald's rant), but people all over dev teams love them. They are a huge argument why companies don't just stand up a git repo and call it done, devs want all those workflows and issue trackers and stuff. SourceHut is very barebones even where it has them. (The exception would be build actions, where SourceHut has no real integrations into big tools, but the core build action system is superior to GitHub's, IMO). Incidentally, the build system depends on qemu: https://drewdevault.com/2018/09/10/Getting-started-with-qemu.html https://drewdevault.com/2018/09/10/Getting-started-with-qemu...
- avg_dev 4y ago
  I am definitely a big PR user, but I believe that PRs could be implemented as a stand-alone app. That link was very interesting, I read it all. The footnote made me laugh, which is good, because apparently I make poor life choices, and am an embarrassment to us all. ;)

Tomte 4y ago

I'm a paying customer, so I like SourceHut a lot, but it's easy to see why it won't be nearly as big as GitHub. * GitHub was much earlier * GitHub was backed by venture capital, and is now backed by Microsoft * GitHub doesn't force you to adopt an email-only workflow. Pull request are much maligned in tech circles (following Linus Torvald's rant), but people all over dev teams love them. They are a huge argument why companies don't just stand up a git repo and call it done, devs want all those workflows and issue trackers and stuff. SourceHut is very barebones even where it has them. (The exception would be build actions, where SourceHut has no real integrations into big tools, but the core build action system is superior to GitHub's, IMO). Incidentally, the build system depends on qemu: https://drewdevault.com/2018/09/10/Getting-started-with-qemu.html https://drewdevault.com/2018/09/10/Getting-started-with-qemu...

avg_dev 4y ago
I am definitely a big PR user, but I believe that PRs could be implemented as a stand-alone app. That link was very interesting, I read it all. The footnote made me laugh, which is good, because apparently I make poor life choices, and am an embarrassment to us all. ;)