alt Hacker NewsDoes anyone plan to use this?
Similarly, is there any momentum left for Cloudflare's EmDash? I can barely find any discussion after April.
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I was immediately excited about this wrapped in Python because the current Python git bindings are kind of obtuse, but they do work so I guess I can't complain.
Wordpress is/was successful because it's braindead and has a solid userbase. I am not to flame WP, but it's a quality to target a specific group of consumers.
It's an organic success, hard to replicate. If at all, CF can only make people migrate with massive effort. Marketing effort, selling lots of snake oil in the process. WP wont just hop on the hot new thing, WP is the definition of the opposite. It works for them. Why change.
Git is the same on the other side. It requires maintenance and improvements, surgical and correct. No git maintainer has time to learn a gigantic new codebase and they will stick with what works for them. For git users there are no advantages. So similarly it would require a long time effort to push the project, building trust that it is somehow better, probably requiring Linus to say "it's great".
It'd seem weird to plan to use this until the readme stops saying
> it has been nearly entirely written by agents and has not been used for realsies. It's probably currently unusably slow or completely broken in ways that are not exercised in the test suite.
Right now it's someone else's experiment that is still in the "might or might not pan out" stage.
There are a bunch of projects using the similar (not vibe coded, less fully featured) gitoxide project - there is demand for git-as-a-library.