GitHub-Next

Could they use the blurb of text at the top to give me like... a noun to describe what this is? It just says some vagueness about the future and investigating and exploring.<p>Is it a conference? A team? An initiative? How does it work?<p>Whatever this is supposed to be selling me on, they&#x27;re doing a terrible job because I can&#x27;t figure out what it is!

Regarding visualization of codebases, something I&#x27;ve wanted for a long time is a graph of function calls across an entire project.<p>I want to know all the callers and callees of every function. This shouldn&#x27;t be too hard, we already have find references via LSP.<p>Turning this into a graph would make it significantly easier to manage the entry and exit points of a code base and inform architecture decisions, refactors, type checking, hot paths etc.

&gt; GitHub Next investigates the future of software development.<p>Yesterday I tried to use Datadog&#x27;s Github integration for stacktraces and it asked me for &quot;access Github on my behalf&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s been the same since the beginning of Github - they leave integrators with no better options, and users with an ambiguous UI dialog &#x2F; docs that downplay the scope being granted.<p>Sooooo maybe fix your own stuff before making such grandiose claims?

Did GitHub ever respond to the concerns about CoPilot? Specifically whether they trained it on private repos or GPL?

If the web implementation of git could be as federated&#x2F;decentralized&#x2F;open as git is so that GitHub didn&#x27;t exist, that would be my ideal &quot;GitHub-Next&quot;. Please eliminate yourselves.

I really don&#x27;t like the two trends Github is pushing for:<p>1. Code editor is full of telemetry and costs money, only accessible over the internet.<p>2. Code regressing into lots of boilerplate and automatically copied stack overflow answers by copilot, programmers using less critical thinking skills.<p>I don&#x27;t trust Microsoft either.

I read the whole page and still can&#x27;t tell what this is. Was someone up against a deadline to get this up?

Will they be innovating in ways that we get to use for free? Or are they creating new ways to get in-between the coder and the machine? E.g. Copilot is a paid subscription.<p>By enabling increased complexity (via Language Server Protocol, Copilot, and even GitHub itself) devs get locked-in to the MS ecosystem. It reminds me of Braess&#x27;s paradox (&quot;adding one or more roads to a road network can slow down overall traffic flow through it&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Braess%27s_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Braess%27s_paradox</a> ).<p>Increasing our ability to generate (but not comprehend) complex systems is also <i>intrinsically</i> dangerous (beyond the &quot;rent seeking&quot; of MS) because complexity itself is a kind of cost or overhead. This is not to say that the more complex system cannot result in efficiency gains that outweigh the cost to maintain that complexity. (If that were true there would be no multicellular life, eh?) It means complexity should be carefully justified in terms of economic&#x2F;engineering considerations.

Visualising a Codebase: This sounds very interesting, it looks like similar graphics as what CodeScene creates.<p>The dependency between the modules seems like a nice addition to me. I don&#x27;t think CodeScene has that one. Can&#x27;t wait to try this on our bigger projects.<p>I never found a really good way to visualize large codebases and the dependencies between the modules, does somebody have something for this?

Is this essentially a rebranding of what was GitHub OCTO (Office of the CTO, I believe?)

Simon Peyton Jones and John Hughes, not bad.

Does githubnext.com read as a phishing-adjacent third party to anyone else?<p>Why not deploy as next.github.com subdomain?

co-pilot used to generate react code with a GUI visualization tool. Boy am I excited for the amount of money people will be paying for ongoing maintenance for this brave new world.

Fun name, and they do what everyone do constantly: &quot;exploring the future of technology and software beyond..&quot; :)

How about making Github-Current actually have a good code review UX?

honestly want a non-vscode plugin for copilot.

A nice diverse team they have there &#x2F;s

If anyone on the team at GitHub who built this site sees this --<p>Heads up, that page has no `&lt;title&gt;` tag so the browser tab is `githubnext.com&#x2F;`. That is a _VERY_ minor nit, but still an SEO ding (you&#x27;re github, that doesn&#x27;t matter much), and a rough edge that could be buffed out.<p>Bonus points for adding a favicon too. :)

If the team needs some data on bloated, slow software and bad practices, they can create an account on gitlab.com and look around for a few minutes.