It’s always humbling when you go on the front page of HN and see an article titled “the thing you’re doing right now is a bad idea and here’s why”

This has happened to me a few times now. The last one was a fantastic article about how PG Notify locks the whole database.

In this particular case it just doesn’t make a ton of sense to change course. Im a solo dev building a thing that may never take off, so using git for plug-in distribution is just a no brainer right now. That said, I’ll hold on to this article in case I’m lucky enough to be in a position where scale becomes an issue for me.

The good news is you can easier avoid some of the pitfalls now even as you stick with it. Some good points in comments.

I don't know if you rely on github.com but IMO vendor lock-in there might be a bigger issue which you can avoid.