IMHO the best and most relevant part of fossil these days is the ticket system, which is in every single way almost completely ideal for coding agents. Some features are: single-binary, in-repo, CLI or web UI, and offline / sql / markdown-friendly.

Since the whole tracker is just a thin front on sqlite with the above features there's many options. Use it per-project persistently so as to include co-workers, or only locally for your own agents to "think" inside of so they are less likely to dump CoT all over the code-comments. Use it even at a per task granularity, and throw it away afterwards. Do all three, fossil doesn't care! And the agents will love it.

(2025).

This is by far the most perplexing part of this article for me:

> People at Git has started to work on a proposal to make the Rust programming language mandatory. I don't like Rust and, above all, I don't like its community of little extremist characters who are trying to make everyone swallow their crap by rewriting projects that have been working for decades, doing social media brigading, and other nice little gems worthy of any tiny group with totalitarian delusions. That's why when I see that a project aims to "force" the use of or the switch from C to Rust, to the extent of my possibilities, I flee from it as if I were pursued by the Balrog of the Lord of the Rings with his whip.

I've been programming for a longish time, and I've acquired my own set of opinions about programming languages, but I can't think of any that I dislike so strongly that I would need to boycott projects that use them under the hood. Moreover, even if we accept the "community of little extremist characters" claim for the sake of argument, is that at all relevant to the Git situation? I haven't seen any evidence that introducing Rust into the code base is the result of extremism, rather than just a mundane technology choice. Finally, when Rust is made "mandatory," it does not mean you must use Rust now, it just means that Rust is required to build the source code. The vast majority of people wouldn't even know that Rust was used. Even most Git developers wouldn't need to use Rust, since after more than a year from the original proposal, the Git source tree is still almost entirely written in C and shell scripts, and the amount of Rust code is basically a rounding error.

The whole Rust issue seems like a big nothingburger, and this reaction seems completely irrational to me.

• fmjrey

  today at 3:25 AM

  Your arguments make sense but I also understand how the OP may have such allergic reaction. I also have seen my share of young devs claiming this new thing is the best thing since sliced bread and that everyone shoud use it. This may be a new language or a new feature like objects. After many slices of bread you may develop an allergy to such fanatics, and react with an opposing force to their eagerness to conquer the world.

• whateveracct

  today at 3:08 AM

  the rust community is trash tho. such bad personalities all around. "mirrors" the issues with the nix community tbh..

• KPGv2

  today at 3:05 AM

  Yeah I stopped reading at that point. Can't trust the reasoning anywhere else in an article once you run into that kind of stuff.