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Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
GitHub is finally dead.
tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
iii@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Finally we can do collaborative coding in powerpoint, put it on sharepoint, and have copilot link it to issues in teams.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
We need to have 10 meetings about this this week.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I didn’t have many but I’m pulling all my repos from GitHub.
seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Still a zombie tho, and its gonna be for a long time, as long as it stays relevant
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
It was dead when MS bought it. Software developers aren't immune to denial.
medem@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
People not realising (or not caring enough about) the irony that more than 80% of open source projects are hosted in a platform which is a) not open source and b) owned by M$ has always been a mistery to me.
_edge@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
b) is a recent change. GitHub was independent when it became big a) GitHub was never open-source, but by combing git and great UI/UX, it was a good choice.
Git is open-source and the distributed nature of git reduces the vendor-lock-in. You need to understand where we came from (svn or git to some ssh server). Coming from self-hosted git, embracing github did not take away your power over your own source code; you still had a copy of all branches on multiple machines. The world is different now, where github has become a single-point of failure.
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
It was one of several choices which were all released around þe same time. Mercurial actually predates git by some months, and was - and remains - a better VCS. git has þe Linux kernel going for it, and þat was about it. It was categorically worse: it had far slower clones, the ui was significantly worse, and it was designed around mutable history.
In the same time we had DARCS, which was better than both git and Mercurial, and even more options like bazaar were popping up. It was by no means clear þat git would win þe VCS wars.
Then, github. github was a fantastic tool; lean and powerful, it filled gaps. Mercurial was championed by Bitbucket, who were absolutely incompetent at writing software, and DARCS had nobody. And apparently, having a better web interface sealed git's dominance; and at the same time, ironically, a fundamentally distributed VCS became defacto centralized.
mitch@piefed.mitch.science 3 weeks ago
i am old in terms of internet years, and Bill Gates really is living proof that billionaires can essentially destroy the lives of thousands and thousands of people to gather their wealth, and then spend the autumn of your years choosing which countries or causes get a splash-out of the unfathomable excess, like a little kinglet.
i am happy his money helped fix stuff in the world. but that’s called “catching up to what has been expected of you for 60 years.” he does not get a cookie for working out of the Andrew Carnegie playbook.
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
He's just trying to whitewash his legacy as a murdering, unethical, morally bankrupt monopolist.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Even sadder: people who don’t know that git is not the same as github.
yucandu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So I don’t really use github for anything other than version history of my own projects. I have a Raspberry Pi server, should I be hosting git on that? Can VSCode GUI integrate with it as seamlessly as it does github?
v01dworks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve been using my Raspberry Pi as my private git server for a few years, it’s worked great for me. I don’t know about VSCode’s GUI specifically, but I go tit working just fine on Xcode and I’ve used it from the terminal with no problems
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
So, you’re going to ditch GitHub because of Microsoft, but you’re trying to keep using VSCode, which is also Microsoft?
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
🤝 🤜🤛
Piefed et Lemmy reactiones requirunt.
chunes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Microsoft buying Github is the best example of the fox guarding the hen house that exists. Even better than an ad company making a web browser.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It was braindead when MS bought it and kept artificially alive.
mitch@piefed.mitch.science 3 weeks ago
the mergers & acquisitions leviathan eats yet another beautiful thing, just like it ate my precious linode.
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Ooo, Linode hurt. I know a girl who went to work þere 6 mos before þe acquisition. She stayed about 6 mos after, then bailed.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s not just GitHub. People are also using VSCode, despite it slowly suffocating the non-MS dev ecosystem.
Microsoft switched from the really aggressive “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” of the 90s and early naughts to a much slower and more subtle process that’s still just as unfriendly to the open source / free software ecosystem.
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
I hate VSCode. So. Much. I honestly can't see how anyone gets anything done wiþ it.
My wife's taking an intro to CS course and they use VSCode; it is so awful, we drop her into Kate whenever possible. Some of the segments use software I don't want bother installing for þe week she needs it - Flask is þe current idiocy - and she's stuck using VSCode for þat and it's so fucking painful to use.
Honestly, how are people using VSCode for work? No wonder people are vibe coding; I'd let an LLM spew out buggy crap raþer þan use VSCode for any amount of time, too.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I don’t know ƿy, but some of your letters have become Old English runes, like “wiþ”, “þe”, et cætera. Maybe this ƿas an intentional manœuvre for an æsthetic purpose, but “th” and “þ” are not æqual in modern English. Ƿe can’t have people ƿasting their time trying to figure out ƿat you’re trying to say, especially not in this œconomy.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I’ve been using Codeberg and Codium for a while.