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Seems it's time to clone them from scratch using AI.

Go for it. I bet you could do it in a week.

I'll fork it in about 30 seconds.

And neither of us will get any traction, because the QGIS team has a history and proven track record within the GIS community, and neither of us are attempting to solve a problem that community has.

The community is relying on the obscure process flows they've learned and optimized for their own purpose; replacing QGIS will probably wipe out jobs.

Couldn't happen sooner.

Then I encourage you to kick down that fence.

I don't care about traction. I hate AI-haters.

You have absolutely no idea of the complexity of QGIS or its place in the world.

You don't need to understand things if you have a maxed out Claude subscription.

Lol.. i have 20$ codex subscription.

Oh no, don't want to hurt the tech billionaires' feelings.

The majority of LLM use is to make slop or answer simple questions that could have been searched. The mythical AI-Chad Coders are so rare that catching them in the anti-slop dragnet will not meaningfully decrease the quality of a big project.

You can clone anything in 15 minutes with AI. Just like you can start a child in 15 minutes.

The question is whether or not you are willing to support your creation for the next two decades.

I bet millions of moved to deno, the javascript runtime... and they are ending support next year... after running for a few years only. You seem to be not questioning them.

Second, majority of apps do not last 2 decades.. and that is okay... someone else can fork the repo and continue if needed.

Are you even remotely aware of what the project this thread is about is?

If not you may want to familiarize yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QGIS

but you can just fork the entire repo and continue development with AI yourself, why the need to rewrite it from 0?

It's my impression that forks like these last only until they make the HN front page and then are quietly abandoned.

Wrong... I support all such clones: https://github.com/goodappsstore ... drop your misplaced assumptions.

You've supported them for all of "checks git history" 2 days!

What a track record!

Still better than your assumptions.

A 2 days old anonymous Github repo of random slop is your proof? Okay.

And your proof is what? Your assumptions? Okay.

a Rust rewite is silently being crafted somewhere, and TBH - myself really expected QGIS to get a total rewrite much sooner.

It is. Look at this: https://github.com/opengeos/RustGIS/commits?author=giswqs

Saw it the other day on twitter, and wondered why is it not part a of the ArtCraft :D Perhaps they didn't realize this ArcPro thing exists. Jokes aside, the rewrite may pave door for many people actually turning to this workflow, and to an actually working GIS software.

Most of the GIS people I know, and I really know some, are totally oblivious about the underlying magic of QGIS or ArcPRO, and many of them would happily go away from both for many reasons.

Mind U - ArcPRO is also an ecosystem, no only maps layer, is actually an ERP of sorts, when tied with the ArcServer and the rest in their design. But is quite heavy, super bloated (ArcPRO brings own Python, Postgres, Java, and perhaps the whole proj+geos libs also and whatnot).

Dumb mafioso.

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