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GitHub hasn't heard of Docker? It seems they could use it to run Subversion without any effect on their git hosting. Just kidding, but remember back in the Dot

GitHub hasn't heard of Docker? It seems they could use it to run Subversion without any effect on their git hosting. Just kidding, but remember back in the DotCloud days when they pointed out you could run Perl? That was pretty cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518526 > In 2010, when GitHub introduced Subversion support, the version control landscape was very different. That was waaaaay before Microsoft acquired it. > But hey, if the Subversion system just works and doesn’t bother anyone, there’s no reason to make any changes, right? The reality is that there’s an ongoing maintenance cost to any software, and that goes extra for public-facing services on the internet. As the use of GitHub has evolved and the number of Subversion requests has declined dramatically, we plan to focus our efforts entirely on Git. Reminds me of how Microsoft dumped Atom (and then fauxpen-sourced VSCode before dumping the last remnants of Atom).

czx4f4bd 4y ago
> Reminds me of how Microsoft dumped Atom (and then fauxpen-sourced VSCode before dumping the last remnants of Atom). I'm confused by this. Microsoft released the VS Code source in 2015, long before they acquired GitHub in 2018 and sunset Atom in 2022.
- benatkin 4y ago
  They moved Atom into de-facto maintenance mode much earlier than that, when VSCode was much less fauxpen-source than it is now.
  - czx4f4bd 4y ago
    Just repeating "fauxpen source" doesn't mean anything to me. What actual change are you referring to?
    - benatkin 4y ago
      Big overview: https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ A couple points in time: Pylance, installed by default, won't open source. Microsoft keeps calling VSCode open source. https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4 https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4 Same for .NET https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1537175065380495367 https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1537175065380495367
      - IceWreck 4y ago
        To add to the list, the c/c++ extensions, remote ssh, remote containers and intellicode are also closed source.

czx4f4bd 4y ago

> Reminds me of how Microsoft dumped Atom (and then fauxpen-sourced VSCode before dumping the last remnants of Atom). I'm confused by this. Microsoft released the VS Code source in 2015, long before they acquired GitHub in 2018 and sunset Atom in 2022.

benatkin 4y ago
They moved Atom into de-facto maintenance mode much earlier than that, when VSCode was much less fauxpen-source than it is now.
- czx4f4bd 4y ago
  Just repeating "fauxpen source" doesn't mean anything to me. What actual change are you referring to?
  - benatkin 4y ago
    Big overview: https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ A couple points in time: Pylance, installed by default, won't open source. Microsoft keeps calling VSCode open source. https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4 https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4 Same for .NET https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1537175065380495367 https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1537175065380495367
    - IceWreck 4y ago
      To add to the list, the c/c++ extensions, remote ssh, remote containers and intellicode are also closed source.