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awesome-structure-editors
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Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?
Yes, I think that we can do better than plain text as the source of truth, and thus git would probably need to change.
There's work around a bunch of languages that are not based on text, some have their own editor or a tool to manage a canonical representation in text for you that would make them friendlier to git.
- https://github.com/yairchu/awesome-structure-editors/blob/main/README.md
- Structure Editors: A list of projectional code editor projects
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Pijul: Version-Control Post-Git • Goto 2023
There's many more akin projects listed in https://github.com/yairchu/awesome-structure-editors/blob/ma...
I can't wait fast enough for these ideas to reshape how we deal with programs and build stuff.
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Is Haskell gaining or losing popularity?
Haskell seems to be pretty big. For example in this list of projects it appears to be the second most popular language (after TypeScript) :)
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Ask HN: Any IDEs or text editor plugins with AST-driven navigation?
See https://github.com/yairchu/awesome-structure-editors
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A Block-Based Functional Programming Language
You could submit a pull request to get it added to awesome-structure-editors by /u/yairchu
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Emacs Is Not Enough
It would be interesting to have such a general project go somewhere.
While in principle structural editing sounds like an incredible advance, there are 'good enough' advantages to plain-text tools that make it a much more practical solution. The other issue is of course integration with existing tooling, which you either skip entirely or compromise on the design.
What I feel is missing, between the description of "old, bad state of things" and "utopian vision" is a review of some of the projects that already tried to achieve this ideal state. It turns out there are a number of them, and most of them failed to achieve any traction or impact [0].
The rants are very long, so I skimmed quickly the one about git; I understand the complaints, although git is only bringing me joy and no pain --interactive rebase, absorb and a few aliases made it a breeze. But in a similar fashion there are projects trying to solve its fundamental issues, like pijul(.org); what are they missing?
[0] https://github.com/yairchu/awesome-structure-editors/blob/ma...
- Ask HN: Is Vim still worth learning?
- Structure Editors
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Ask HN: More “experimental“ UIs for editing/writing code?
Some good ones pops up in Projectional Programming [1] once in a while. The pinned thread links to the structure-editors github list [2] too.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/nosyntax/
[2] https://github.com/yairchu/awesome-structure-editors
git-cola
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Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?
> Visual Studio does a decent job of abstracting the GIT nuances, but I personally use GIT Extensions, which looks and feels much better on Windows than the other cross platform UIs.
IDEs and text editors sometimes have nice Git integrations in the UI, but I wanted standalone software that I can use for anything from various programming projects, to something like gamedev projects (with Git LFS) or arbitrary documents.
In the end, I just forked over some money for GitKraken, it's pretty good, especially with multiple accounts on the same platforms, when you want to switch between them easily: https://www.gitkraken.com/
There's also Sourcetree which I used before then, kind of sluggish but feature complete: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
For something more lightweight, I also enjoyed Git Cola on various OSes: https://git-cola.github.io/ Even Git documentation has a page on the software out there, a good deal of which is free and has good platform support: https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis
Quite frankly, I spend like 90% of the time using a GUI interface nowadays, when I want to easily merge things, or include very specific code blocks across multiple files in a commit, or handle most of the other common operations. Of course, sometimes there's a need to drop down to the CLI, but you're right that some GUI software feels like it actually improves the usability here.
- I don't know why so many devs avoid a GUI for Git
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Why Git Is Hard
I think Git can be a pretty pleasant experience for most folks, as long as you use the basic features and maybe even consider a GUI, anything from Git Cola (free: https://git-cola.github.io/), to something like GitKraken (paid for all features: https://www.gitkraken.com/).
Curiously, the latter also let me setup different accounts that I can switch between with a simple dropdown, which was otherwise annoying when you have Gitea, GitHub, GitLab and others to manage, way easier than https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...
Either way, suddenly you see the graph of your repo and most of the common actions are a click away, you can just let your brain idle and think about other things you're doing instead, in addition to that working really well with staging chunks of your code, or individual files, cherrypicking and so on.
Then again, personally I prefer squashing in merge/pull requests instead of rebasing, or even just doing regular merge commits and leaving the history as is (which doesn't really scale, but I haven't gotten to the point where that matters that much), so how I use Git won't work for everyone.
- Top 10 Git GUI Clients for Linux in 2023
- Exploring the Top 10 Git GUI Clients for Linux in 2023
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Git-SIM: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single termi
> We now have a large selection of tools that allow you to visualize what's going on (I use git-kraken), as well as google for help on doing something that isn't in muscle memory.
Git Kraken is excellent, though Git has a page on various GUIs, many of which are free with no restrictions: https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis
Personally, on Windows I like SourceTree: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
Some that have worked with SVN back in the day like TortoiseGit: https://tortoisegit.org/
On *nix Git Cola seems to do the job for me: https://git-cola.github.io/
Then again, the most complex workflow I've worked with was Git Flow and I didn't need anything more advanced than that. Come to think of it, I don't really do rebases often either and mostly just take advantage of squashing commits through GitLab/Gitea and such, when needed.
But hey, that's also valid, using Git in a way where you get version control but mostly keep the technical details out of your way (though Git LFS and certain cases with particular line endings being needed does make you drop down occasionally).
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Report: More Developers Use Linux Than a Mac
Try git cola. It's not the slickest but it scratches my pointy/clicky desires for git pretty well.
- How can I find someone to explain
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Idiot Proof Git
If you can tolerate a GUI, Git Cola might be a solution. I'm using it exclusively for some 5 years now – it's lightweight enough, but still makes you think about what you're about to commit. You can add things to .gitignore directly from there, too.
https://git-cola.github.io/
Default layout is pretty barebones, here's what I'm doing instead: https://u.ale.sh/my-git-cola-screenshot.png
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I think the real reason why people think using the terminal is required on Linux is a direct result of the Linux terminal being so much better than the Windows terminal
i still don't know how to split one commit into multiples (without going insane (if it's even possible)) without a gui like https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola, and that should be a simple operation (especially with git's "split every change into individual commits make it easier to cherry pick" conventions)
What are some alternatives?
lisperanto - Lisperanto is a spatial canvas for programming; Lisperanto is a spatial canvas for knowledge; Lisperanto is a spatial canvas for ideas;
VCS - This is my first simple version control system
unit - Next Generation Visual Programming System
Guitar - Git GUI Client
metadesk
GitUp - The Git interface you've been missing all your life has finally arrived.
git-stack - Stacked branch management for Git
VirtScreen - Make your iPad/tablet/computer into a secondary monitor on Linux.
gtoolkit - Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development environment. It empowers you to make systems explainable through experiences tailored for each problem.
django-markdownx - Comprehensive Markdown plugin built for Django
git-machete - Probably the sharpest git repository organizer & rebase/merge workflow automation tool you've ever seen
webdiff - Two-column web-based git difftool