the loss of network effect.

I have never once in my life cared about where a programming language kept its source and I think if anyone is using that as a basis for decision-making, they are truly a moron.

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vopi 3 days ago | parent [-]

You’re telling me you would be as likely to contribute to a project hosted in CVS as compared to git (and on GitHub)?

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miyoji 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don't care if it's on GitHub at all, it's not hard to work with any arbitrary git remote. CVS would be a weird choice, but it wouldn't be a dealbreaker on its own. Fossil or some other modern alternative VCS wouldn't be a red flag or weird at all.

But I wasn't talking about contributing to the language, which is a weird standard to use here since Zig isn't interested in outside contributors. I was talking about choosing a programming language for use for some professional or personal project. I don't give a fig what version control solutions the team chooses to use if the language is good and solves my problems, and I would consider it very strange if someone tried to argue that I shouldn't use some language because they put their code on a non-Microsoft owned server.

	▲	vopi 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I generally agree with you that choosing something based on where it's hosted is dumb. I still think there could be an impact wrt a network effect. The original comment you replied to was talking about "the loss of network effect" and you sounded dismissive of it. It might not even matter, but I think it's somewhat fair to say it could have an impact.

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sph 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

No, but making a codeberg account, seemingly the second most popular forge in the world, is not that huge effort.

	▲	vopi 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I agree. It's possible in the future a project hosted on codeberg is a silent "stamp of quality". Though, I still think there could be impact wrt a network effect.
	▲	kanwisher 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		never once seen a link to codeberg, at least gitlab or god forbid source forge still gets linked to on occasion
	▲	crabmusket 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> second most popular forge in the world This is absolutely brutal to GitLab

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crabmusket 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What I assume you mean is not the network effect, where more users of a product makes the product more valuable. That's still true for Zig as more users increase the ecosystem, funding potential etc. regardless of where the compiler source lives.

I think you mean to say something like barrier to entry for contributors? Where having to sign up for a new service will discourage some engagement with the core repo.

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fg137 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Linux kernel is not even run on github. Somehow people manage to find its source and contribute to it.