why not start with fogas ? you know … to test the waters ?

this not a `git` failure per se...

Yes, but the thing is just that if people are looking around for new providers it's an opportunity for alternative systems to attract attention and users.

I understand what you convey, however, users are tired of the git GUI, not git itself.

because github is subpar, you will try to convince people to migrate their repositories to $NOT_GIT so they can try a different hosting service ? doesn’t sound like a pragmatic choice to me.

zig's 'contributor poker' is sounding more and more prescient.

looked it up: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/

why not raise to any other even power ?

One way of thinking about that is higher order even powers just reduce down to two.

For the purpose of inverting a negative vector, you can think of squaring as rotating the vector around the unit circle, 180 degrees, to make it positive. Higher order powers just keep rotating that vector back and forth- from this perspective the other even powers are the same transformation. Obviously with the magnitude being different.

isn't linux-kernel-development operating on exactly the same model since forever ?

Someone mentioned sqlite in a comment. It's a better comparison IMO.

Also, Linux has many more people, many of whom basically just review code.

sub-prime token crisis

in the words of mr. mitch-hedburg “here, you throw this away“

He could have sold those printouts instead of giving them away.

reminds me of c.m. kornbluth’s ‘march of the morons’ , highly recommended.