Rethinking Fedora's compiler policy

All three projects are in the very early stages and are very unlikely to be usable at this stage. Hopefully they all mature and their changes get merged into the relevant places, the authors of gccrs for example plan to get it merged into GCC.

There are plenty of dependable projects hosted on GitHub, the hosting service doesn't contribute to a project's dependability, as long as the project keeps good backups so they can move to another service.

Of course GitHub being a service owned by a convicted monopolist and running proprietary software isn't great. We need Free Software projects to run Free Software tools on their own infrastructure, which is why my GitHub profile links to mako's "Free Software Needs Free Tools" article.

https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
https://github.com/pabs3

Unfortunately the large tech companies, some of them venture capital funded, have monopolised (and consequently I think shrunk) the market for sysadmins, so various projects (even Python!!) have switched away from self-hosted solutions towards proprietary services, mainly to avoid the sysadmin work necessary with self-hosting both software and hardware, since those with strong sysadmin skills joined large tech companies and others had their remaining skills atrophy after moving to proprietary services.

The network effects of GitHub and the attractiveness of outsourcing your sysadmin work needs mean it is very unlikely we will see much of a switch away from GitHub. The only thing I can see that would disrupt this cycle would be a move away from the Web and towards native apps and development environments based on locally installed software and distributed protocols. I don't expect to see these things within my lifetime though.