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Interesting hearing about how they want to tackle the Microsoft ecosystem. As someone who spent years in that ecosystem and recently left it for OSS, I'll be c
by hkarthik 15y ago
Interesting hearing about how they want to tackle the Microsoft ecosystem.
As someone who spent years in that ecosystem and recently left it for OSS, I'll be curious to see what kind of success they see and who they are targeting.
- SideburnsOfDoom 15y agoPhil Haack is one of the people who recently joined Github from MS developer tools division, with the aim to make the github experience better for those same devs. He blogs, maybe you'll find more info on the subject there: http://haacked.com/archive/2011/12/07/hello-github.aspx http://haacked.com/archive/2011/12/07/hello-github.aspx I wonder who the other person who joined Github from Microsoft was?
- hkarthik 15y agoYeah, I knew about Phil Haack but he's been pretty silent on what he's working on. Hoping to hear more soon.
- icey 15y agoI'm pretty sure the other person is Paul Betts. They are working on Github for Windows (i.e. a Windows version of what they've done with Github for Mac).
- SideburnsOfDoom 15y agoA quick google suggests that you're right. Thanks for that.
- SideburnsOfDoom 15y agoRelated, I never really got the point of "Github for mac". Do we need a fat-client app when we already have a first-rate web app? What does it do/enable/make easy that github the website doesn't? A Mac or PC isn't a tiny phone screen with no keyboard, where native apps are more usable than websites. I use TortoiseGit as well for the rest of the github experience, since I'm not a git master and I can pretend it's SVN with pull requests.