Goodbye Medium, hello Ghost

Re:Goodbye Medium, hello Ghost by mg on Monday July 04, 2022 @01:49AM (#31973836)

These projects are gigantic:

    git clone https://github.com/statamic/cms.git
    cd cms
    git ls-files | wc
    3133
    find . -name '*.php' | xargs wc -l
    ...
    225023 total

3133 files. 225023 lines of PHP code. Plus dependencies, which are not counted here.

I am going for 1 file with 50 lines of code and no dependencies.

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Re:Goodbye Medium, hello Ghost by mirzap on Monday July 04, 2022 @01:56AM (#31973882)

Good luck with that. Personally I don't see a point in avoiding dependencies. I'll always trust more software that is built on collective wisdom with carefully picked dependencies, rather than a single (or couple) geeks that put everything in single file, avoiding dependency hell. To me that's a red flag.

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Re:Goodbye Medium, hello Ghost by mg on Monday July 04, 2022 @02:02AM (#31973913)

With a single script with 50 lines of code, I will forever be able to pick it up again, understand it, use it, improve it. Handling will be quick. No installation, just copy the script, run it, done.

Using a project made of thousands of files and dependencies, there is way more maintenance ahead. Handling is slower and more cumbersome. If the project moves in a direction I don't like, maintaining a fork would be too much work.

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