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Programming language-aware Git repository hosting

Shown by caustic on Apr 8, 2013. Click the card to turn it over.

93points

33comments

#248of 1,739 in 2013

Top 15%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

4 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 1 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.

Idea: 3 for, 1 against

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Hosting is commoditized; value lies in insights and annotations
From 1 comment
- That's is an interesting proposition. Especially considering that hosting is commoditized. Annotations and providing insights is the real value proposition in this case, so it…
  ziyadb on HN
Closed-source business model conflicts with open source
From 2 comments
- I can't help but sympathize with the Morozov rant on O'Reilly when bleeding-edge tooling like this get sold as services and not offered up as free software for all the community…
  goldfeld on HN
- How does one make sure that their code isn't used in a closed source project though? What's to stop them from using it if no outsider will see their code?
  bfish510 on HN
Hard to parse languages like C and Lisp
From 1 comment
- The semantic diff is pretty cool. It will probably be pretty hard to apply that to C (cpp) and Lisp (macros, and especially the programmable readers in some Lisps). But maybe we…
  rwos on HN

Open source the diff tool
From 2 comments
- Cool stuff! This is something that can be improved instead of huge line diffs. For some input, I generally don't use `git diff`, instead I alias `git df` to `git diff…
  miles_matthias on HN
- I can't help but sympathize with the Morozov rant on O'Reilly when bleeding-edge tooling like this get sold as services and not offered up as free software for all the community…
  goldfeld on HN
Integrate with GitHub without moving repos
From 2 comments
- This seems really cool, I'd love to see it integrated with GitHub so that when I push my code to my repos it notifies CommitQ of the diffs and it can process them. I don't need a…
  goodwink on HN
- Giving more "engineering" tools to devs is finally getting more attention which is awesome. I'd love to use this kind of tech but don't want to move source repository host and…
  roskilli on HN
Support PHP parsing
From 1 comment
- This has some real promise. Congrats! Are you planning to parse PHP?
  paulyg on HN

Will it parse many languages and allow custom parsers?
From 1 comment
- This is pretty amazing. I regularly have conversations with other programmers where we talk about needing this sort of tool. Question: For every language, are you writing a…
  gabriel on HN
How will the business model avoid closed-source use of open code?
From 1 comment
- How does one make sure that their code isn't used in a closed source project though? What's to stop them from using it if no outsider will see their code?
  bfish510 on HN

Code Climate
From 1 comment
- This is what https://codeclimate.com/ do. They started with code static analysis metrics, but have now added security analysis too. Ruby only, but same concept applies.
  lukeholder on HN
Plastic SCM
From 2 comments
- Plastic SCM's free-as-in-beer desktop diff/merge tools include enhanced diff functionality, including help when refactoring: http://plasticscm.com/features/xmerge.aspx
  j_s on HN
- Yep, there's such a thing for C#, just check this: http://plasticscm.com/sm/index.html
  psantosl on HN