Ask HN: Are GitHub, GitLab, and similars just a fad?

Re:Ask HN: Are GitHub, GitLab, and similars just a fad? by jstx1 on Monday July 05, 2021 @05:41PM (#27742078)

The portfolio/social signalling reason is a tiny part of actual Github/Gitlab use. Most people and companies use these platforms to do their actual work and write software. So no - they're not even close to being a fad. If the social signalling part isn't useful to you, just ignore it - that's what most other developers do too and most of them are doing fine without it.

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Re:Ask HN: Are GitHub, GitLab, and similars just a fad? by sdevonoes on Monday July 05, 2021 @05:44PM (#27742103)

I stated that for certain kind of projects it does make sense to use GitHub and similars. My point is mainly about people like me that publish their half-baked code online. I did it because I heard that GitHub was cool; so at least for me it's a fad. I wonder if other devs like me are in a similar position.

> The portfolio/social signalling reason is a tiny part of actual Github/Gitlab use

How so? Are there any numbers about this? Perhaps I write a bot to analyze the distribution of GitHub repositories in terms of stars, forks, #issues, #PRs and can come up with some numbers to back up my hypothesis. I'll publish the code... on my website :)

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Re:Ask HN: Are GitHub, GitLab, and similars just a fad? by jstx1 on Monday July 05, 2021 @05:47PM (#27742127)

You can't write a bot to do this because most of that work happens in private repositories or on entirely separate enterprise instances.

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Re:Ask HN: Are GitHub, GitLab, and similars just a fad? by sdevonoes on Monday July 05, 2021 @05:49PM (#27742145)

Indeed, you're right. I have edited my post. My point was about all the non-enterprise usage of GitHub.

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