Ah thought I saw a Helium browser mentioned recently on HN[0] and thought this was the same thing. So this is not the same as this Helium browser [1]?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366867

[1]: https://helium.computer/

▲ VPenkov 8 days ago | parent [-]

The repository introduces it as indeed based on Helium [0].

The cool part about Helium is that it's based on patches, rather than forking the full source code. I don't know how sustainable this is in the long term, but it's an interesting approach for sure.

[0]: https://helium.computer/

▲ kelnos 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

Not sure what's cool about that. A fork is a patch set, with a ton more ergonomics on top. Passing around sets of patches was what we did before VCSs were common/easy-to-set-up, and it was always brittle and annoying.

	▲	akazantsev 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Here is a homework for you to see why they do it: `1. Checkout Chromium's codebase. 2. Make a commit and see how long it takes. 3. Try to push it to any git hosting service.` You will discover what's actually brittle and annoying. And yes, being 10s vs 10000s devs in the same repo isn't fun.

▲ akazantsev 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Standard practice for Chromium forks. Chromium's repo is huge, slow, and impossible to diff for your changes with 10000s of other commits. Also, painful to host it anywhere.