None of this means that you have to be on a specific platform. GitHub as default/mandatory is a single point of failure for the entire tech industry.

For an example of another language that avoids being entirely coupled into Github, Go has it's real code hosting and CI interaction on a Gerrit instance, with some sync back and forth to GitHub for a few items.

The CI pain and operational blindness mentioned in the Zig post is entirely real.

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wewewedxfgdf 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah but marketing matters for Zig because it's still struggling to get significant mindshare.

Zig needs to behave more mainstream rather than less and technical gripes about the source hosting platform should not matter more than marketing.

	▲	skybrian 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Maybe, but isn't it too soon to be mainstream anyway? Until the language and standard libraries hit 1.0, it seems like Zig is for early adopters. Having too many of the wrong kind of users is just going to be frustrating for everyone.
	▲	mk89 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well maybe we are seeing this the wrong way. Maybe that's exactly the mindshare they want. People who get angry when they see bad code, so much to call the developers lackeys and monkeys. And an organization whose code base doesn't have to be on a mainstream server to attract exactly those who agree with this choice.