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> I've wanted to have domains as identity for years, so I'm thrilled to see someone actually doing it.

on a tangentially related note: Go "package management" is based on domain identity (although most people just use github.com), yet for some reason people seem to prefer to defer to a centralized registry and praise "good package managers" like cargo.




Yeah. I've used that enough to learn how it works. I think the biggest issue is that it's not the default and most people take the easiest path which is using GitHub, etc.. There's a neat project that can help generate some of the web resources needed to use vanity imports:

https://github.com/leighmcculloch/vangen


The pattern repeats fractally in everything. Since you mention Github - it happens to be by far the widely-used, centralized repository hosting, and promoter of pull-request based workflows - for a version control system whose whole entire point is for you to not do that. I mean, the "D" in "DVCS" doesn't stand for "has no manual file-level locking".




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