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Well, happy users since around 2015 (?).

There is a catch though - we use it only as a code review platform. It always seemed to be focused on that part more than in any other. I'm not saying everything else is bad, it just a gut feeling that code review always got the maximum attention.

And another catch is that it seems they lost their momentum even in this area. I recall times when we waited for weekly status update to see if there is something we'd have as excuse for an upgrade. Now it's even not a weekly update and speed of development seems to be slow.

Repl.it Database 6 years ago

on Golang REPL there is no error message displayed which makes it even more puzzling, thanks for hint with logging in!

Cares about what though?

I guess that's the question which most commenters actually missed :-)

If I had to define things I'd say that the former is actually "care" and the latter is a bit closer to "passion".

What you are referring to sounds more like "passion" than "care" and those are 2 different things which express in different personal traits.

Passion is nice, but as author above I'd prefer to have a person who cares about what they're doing over just a passionate person.

Unfortunately to find a "caring" person is even harder than to find a passionate person.

Off topic: considering you've left BitKeeper and you were one of the most active developers in user forum, what's the status of BitKeeper? Is it still developed* or it's in maintenance mode for existing commercial clients?

* yes, it's open source, but being open source and "you can add any feature yourself" doesn't imply there is a momentum behind and a kind of "directed" force to move it forward

The lock file stops future upgrades; once it is written, your build stays on serde 1.0.27 even when 1.0.28 is released.

That means that the only difference is that `vgo` doesn't require lock file for reproducible builds, now the question is what's considered so terrible wrong/dangerous with having a lock file?

I'd say that post actually makes a bit different point: while Docker might be good for developers, it's failing on production "side" of things. And that has a completely different set of requirements than CI servers with multiple versions on SQL engines.

Looks like those messages are copied from mailing lists (TBBETA and/or TBUDL). Considering The Bat! was the most popular product[1] and its users were email addicted those mailing lists are the best way to reach their users directly.

I've seen publications in local[2] "press" about the case although it focuses only on corruption and there is no mention of internal company's politics there.

[1] at time I worked there it was the only source of revenue, not sure if any other product take off since

[2] yep, I'm in Moldova