• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Domains are, sure but the space is much much larger. With namespaces the space is for example namespace x crate instead of just crate. With domains it’s impossibly large. And if you introduce some kind verification with domains e.g putting something in the DNS TEXT entry, or calling a well-known path, or or or, you basically can’t squat anything well-known anymore.

    As for github, you must have a github account to create a crate on crates.io. to my knowledge there is no alternative crates registry. Point me to one if you do, because I’d be grateful and willing to publish my crates there.

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        22 hours ago

        I find it ridiculous that they started with github in the first place, but who am I to judge. It is ironic that in order to contribute a non-github solution, you still need to create a github account to make a PR.

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          17 hours ago

          @onlinepersona I’m quite certain that if you have a working solution, visible somewhere on internet, you can ping them on zulip/discourse to ask someone to pull your code.

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            16 hours ago

            Oh really? 🤔 Every project on Github that I’ve tried to contribute to from outside has been resistant to it. But maybe I could give cargo.io a try. Zulip you say? Interesting choice… requires creating yet another account since it doesn’t seem to be federated…