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Re:I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix by kowdermeister on Saturday December 31, 2016 @03:40AM (#13290183)
What's wrong with being centralized? It's just a prototyping platform. I doubt anyone would build a production app on this.

I recently used it to play with websockets and being centralized was the main reason it worked so well.

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Re:I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix by svantana on Saturday December 31, 2016 @05:34AM (#13290511)
Exactly this. It's like saying shadertoy is bad because it's centralized. When in reality it doesn't matter because everyone is going to lift their code out to their production env when they're done experimenting.
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Re:I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix by pdkl95 on Saturday December 31, 2016 @04:50AM (#13290375)
In software, unfortunately, the prototype often is the production app.
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Re:I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix by arkitaip on Saturday December 31, 2016 @03:51AM (#13290220)
I was hoping it would be for production apps...
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Re:I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix by mstade on Monday January 02, 2017 @10:07AM (#13301488)
I think the OP's concerns with centralization is that over time this might become a great collection of fun/useful/interesting/<insert adjective here> sites, just like geocities, but because it is centralized it can all irrevocably just go away one day at the whim of the controlling company. Just like geocities.
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