This doesn’t surprise me at all coming from github. I’ve tried using their public api’s, and they’re all shockingly bad. In some cases I thought it was my mistake, but then I checked their website, and found it was bug for bug compatible with the thing I’d built.

My usual rule of thumb for choosing products is to go with whatever rising alternative there is to the entrenched monopoly. The little one needs to be much better to overcome monopoly effects.

I don’t sign my own paycheck, but would be moving to gitlab or something if I did.

Well the user-git-facing parts of GitHub are built on libgit2 and libssh.