I get that, and I find things like the demoscene interesting where the medium is a large part of the value -- but in this case (and most cases when stories like this are posted) it seems like a serious business product, where the medium is an implementation detail - the value is in other things like "open source" and "easy to install"

As mentioned, when I see "written in Scala", the implication is you ./sbt package it into a WAR, then stick it in a standard servlet container, and voila, up and running. In Gitbucket's case you don't even have to package it, just download the war.

So for a bunch of coders who may want to run a repo service on their internal network, employer or client's network, this is an interesting option.

Also it's FOSS, which I upvote by default here, be it from Mozilla or a random hobbyist.

PS - Not to bag on Gitorious, great FOSS project and much improved install as of late.