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It is not new. I have heard that word for more than a decade already. I guess you need to know about the foss ecosystem to know it.
by prmoustache 2y ago
It is not new. I have heard that word for more than a decade already.
I guess you need to know about the foss ecosystem to know it.
- kookamamie 2y agoIt is not new, but also not ubiquous enough to express something everyone understands. Trying to get "forge" across as some kind of defacto term just adds noise to the product description, I think.
- IshKebab 2y agoI also knew it but look at the number of comments saying "what is a forge?" here - it's clearly not a good description.
- lamontcg 2y agoYeah, it is funny to read all the assertions that everyone knows what a "forge" refers to in the middle of all the threads wondering wtf a "forge" is...
- 000ooo000 2y agoOnce upon a time, a lot of software was released/available through "source forge", which is pretty self-explanatory in the context of software publishing. Then a decade ago, SourceForge shit the bed and destroyed its reputation. I'd bet that most of the developers saying they've never heard of "forge" in this context have entered in the industry in that time.