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patiently waiting for the "github actively considered useless" post on medium.com at some point. actions are a howling trainwreck. Copilot is a dancing bear of
by nimbius 3y ago
patiently waiting for the "github actively considered useless" post on medium.com at some point.
actions are a howling trainwreck. Copilot is a dancing bear of potential litigation and code exfiltration. neither are immediately very dangerous though as Github.com itself, and its ecosystems, have had more than sixty outages this year alone. if you can get over those, you'd better hope members of your team dont live in --or have been actively sanctioned by-- the United States because Microsoft will just delete your work and lock you out.
Look...when you drop 7.5 billion dollars on a code ecosystem in order to capture the worlds developers, its incumbent upon you not to squander the braintrust youve just aligned yourself with. Microsoft feels like its done nearly everything it could to erase whatever goodwill github had as a standalone company in an effort to do the same pathetic whitewash its done with every other acquisition. Shoehorn its own garbage languages into the product, migrate its services to Azures low-performance dumpster fire, and lock in whatever users ya got in order to staunch the potential bleed to other much more meaningful programs like gitea or github.
I give this github.com another 7 years before Microsoft quietly packs it up, sells it to a capital management firm, and sweeps it under the rug.
- holman 3y agoI wouldn’t deny that Microsoft brings a lot of friction and problems to things within GitHub, but you also shouldn’t underestimate that GitHub itself is doing a lot of this on their own merit. Regardless of the parent company, the GitHub org is huge, with a lot of people and execs involved. Just wait until the next year or two of reimplementing all these existing features in React- that’s really going to be fun!
- WOnderFullGOnzo 3y ago[dead]