GitHub Is Dying and Developers Don't Even Know It Yet

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11 points·Mitchem··5 comments

Cut to the chase: This is a marketing post (ad?) for Mesa. https://www.mesa.dev/

A code-first proprietary git-like clone.

They seem to make the mistake many do which is to conflate git and GitHub (though TFA doesn't), because why would you adopt a proprietary hosted VCS (and a startup to boot which could disappear anyway)?

At least with GitHub you can pack up your repos and move elsewhere.

GitHub is certainly in trouble for many reasons. Git...maybe? But is the answer really a proprietary vc-funded ($5M seed) startup?

I do work at Mesa and I'm upfront about that in the article. But I cover cURL's bug bounty shutdown, Zig leaving GitHub, the Kai Gritun incident, jujutsu, Atomic Software, and maintainer burnout among other items.

Those problems are real independent of Mesa. I do shoutout an open source project we have called AgentBlame but don't talk about anything related to proprietary software or why Mesa is the end-all-be-all.

Thanks for your feedback, definitely did not mean for this to come across as an ad.

FYI I went to your website and was thoroughly confused about the product.

So it’s trying to be like lovable, n8n, etc?

Then there’s stuff about Postgres and S3? I just closed the tab cuz I was completely lost.

> Ghostty banned AI-generated contributions outright

that's a lie: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.m...

Great catch thank you

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