Git allows me to write code as much as I want. But GitHub does more than just Git. If you don’t remember the details of the next task you need to work on and GitHub is down, that’s a problem. As a senior I spend a lot of time reviewing PRs. That’s considerably harder when GitHub is down.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds dumb to be that dependent on a US platform in 2026 AD

[–] VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Right? We’ve had two thousand and twenty six years since Christ walked the earth to reduce our dependency on GitHub, what are we even doing

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I mean there are tons of options in that space so if it's an issue that is sorta on your business to have evaluated their dependency.

We work on an internal gitlab instance that has had 100 percent up time for like 2 years. It doesn't even have to be gitlab, there's gitea and like 10 other options.

I personally think that the industry has moved so far in the direction of cloud and saas that it's lost a lot of valuable skills and made them dependent on too much externally.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It's like "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Nobody ever got fired for pitching a migration to GitHub. It doesn't have to be good. Then one day it's crumbling down and people will have to learn to face consequences.