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Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
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- Gitdot is an open-source GitHub alternative written in Rust, positioning itself as a better developer platform.
- The platform features a familiar interface with navigation paths like /home, /faq, /weeks, /designs, and /releases.
- Repository discovery includes trending and new sections, with social features like voting (e.g., bkdevs/gitdot with 30 points).
- The ecosystem already has community contributions including a Homebrew tap (homebrew-gitdot) for easy installation.
- Projects on the platform span diverse categories: podcasts (clodcast), programming languages (zogo), data tools (polars-llm), and games (nonograph).
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The benefit is the static compilation. But the "Written in rust" stuff comes with so much falsehood baggage about automatic best-in-class performance, automatic perfect safety, automatic rigor, that it is detrimental to just say "written in rust" and not provide a more nuanced statement about why that's good (or just drop it as a headline item!). You might not agree because you can single out one automatic benefit of rust b/c of Cargo (not rust), but even that is suspect b/c Rust can ship with…Read on HN ↗
It is not about being able to make static binaries or really anything that has to do with anything technical. It is more of a cultural thing - the culture in some languages is to link dependencies dynamically (C/C++) whereas the culture in others is to link dependencies statically (Go, not sure about Rust). Personally i do not even write Go myself yet when i see some webapp made in Go i'm pretty much always sure that it'll be a self-contained static binary. Yes, there are probably exceptions (a…Read on HN ↗
>As of now, all repositories are free, but we do envision charging for private repositories for teams in the future. Please don’t do this. Charge a fair price, in fact find a fair price and double it. I don’t want a free GitHub clone, I want one that works. How about 50$ 50 private repos, 50GBs of git LFS storage. Add collaborators for free. Actually respond to customers. At this level you only need 1000 paying customers to make it worth while for 2 developers.Read on HN ↗
"Written in Rust" signals some common attributes. Fast, Safe, Lightweight, Statically linked (plop a precompiled binary in ~/.local/bin and run it), few/shallow dependencies, senior developers, "Done" software. Now, certainly no guarantees, enough counter-examples, I know. And attributes that one can get with anything from PHP via Javascript to Lisp as well. Some attributes have stronger correlation than others too. But, in general, "rust" has a (much) higher chance of meeting these attribute…Read on HN ↗