You're right! In hindsight I probably should have change the title when I cross-posted here π
absolutely_vivid
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Yeah, microsoft has owned github since 2018. I made this to help people and organizations move off of github, onto something like forgejo or sourcehut. But even after moving, all of those old issues, pull requests, comments, those need to live somewhere. A lot of people seem to use a script to recreate all their issues on their new code host, but that loses a lot of metadata and can only work if there's a script for your new chosen host. Everyone else just archives the repo and leaves all that info there, which is great until people forget its there, or microsoft decides to start charging for issue hosting.
So now, with GAH!, people can more easily move away from github, they don't need to worry about what happens to their issues and PRs. It's one less barrier to leaving github :)
Oh hi, I forgot to reply to this!
My reasoning was mostly "I read it somewhere when I started coding and then didn't do much with threads" to be honest. Not great reasoning there. But modeling the interactions between a user, UI thread, and work thread made it a lot easier to organize my code and create a good separation of concerns; the UI thread handles interface updates and dispatching events, and the worker thread works. Honestly that code organization was the biggest advantage I got out of doing things this way, and I wish I'd emphasized that more in the blog post.
It is now lol
I'm bad at naming things, so it was originally GHA (for github archiver, changed to good helpful archiver because trademark), but I kept misspelling it as GAH so it was just easier to change the name.
But the reference is way better :P