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>"Github has become the de-facto place to put code that you want others to work with," I think maybe you meant to use a more general term like "source control"
by mfisher87 12y ago
>"Github has become the de-facto place to put code that you want others to work with,"
I think maybe you meant to use a more general term like "source control" here. Because that's so wrong to say github is de-facto for collaboration. There are proprietary projects with their own source control everywhere and "not using github" is no concern for any of them. Source control came around long before source control front-ends, surprisingly. And, again, probably surprisingly, not everyone needs a front-end to actually work.
- angersock 12y agoLet's not mince words. Where else is that code being written, and what is it's volume of code compared to Github? SourceForge? CPAN? The OpenBSD CVS? Bitbucket? Google Code (lol)? I'd be genuinely surprised if you could show me a place with more repositories right now than Github--I'd love to see such a vibrant ecosystem!
- raverbashing 12y agoNo Linux distribution uses github. Same for FreeBSD/OpenBSD The Linux Kernel is there but development is not done there, it's merely a mirror. Gnome (https://git.gnome.org/browse/ https://git.gnome.org/browse/), KDE, XFCE (http://git.xfce.org/ http://git.xfce.org/) are not there. Nginx? Uses Mercurial http://nginx.org/en/download.html http://nginx.org/en/download.html Apache? Not there as well Gcc? LLvm? http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#checkout http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#checkout But the latest fad.js is in github so that's what people use, right?
- angersock 12y agoSo, you've listed like 5-10 projects, scattered across several services. Big projects which are important, don't get me wrong--but still outnumbered by the huge number of your "fad.js" projects. So, thanks for making my point I guess?