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Zed DeltaDB

514 points · 298 comments · ahamez

  1. hresvelgr · · focus · HN ↗
    Commercially speaking, going against Git is a fool's errand. As much as I'd like to see Git usurped, I can't imagine the people backing this would sign off on a competitor to Git unless it was some type of sidecar. No doubt it'll be tightly coupled to Zed as well which is concerning. Perhaps this is pessimistic but I don't have faith the team are going to deliver anything groundbreaking given their entire business is existing technology, but less shit. No one is going to move core infrastructure for less shit or slightly better, otherwise we'd be using Mercurial or Darcs.
    1. jonkoops · · focus · HN ↗
      This isn't trying to be a replacement for Git. Maybe read up first?
      1. conartist6 · · focus · HN ↗
        That's what's trouble: git is reaching the end of its useful life.

        It's 25 years old, and the patch files that make up the core of the decentralized collaboration system are fully 50 years old. Have the design requirements and constraints perhaps changed over the last 50 years?

        1. computerfriend · · focus · HN ↗
          I don't think so.
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