Judo (Jujutsu GUI)
23 points by altano
23 points by altano
Note it is proprietary software, so I would assume the plan is to monetise it at some point.
From the dev, on HN:
The project is indeed closed-source. Personally I've had experiences where I found the project moved forward towards the roadmap much faster - specifically when considering smaller-scale projects that are UI heavy and therefore take in many UI changes in parallel - when I instead implemented feature requests and focused most of my energy on listening to user feedback rather than reviewing code. UI polish can be quite tricky when it comes from many sources :)
That said, nothing is set in stone! If at some point there are enough feature requests to where I am the bottleneck, this is something I would revisit.
It's unfortunate that they named it after an existing, FOSS jujutsu GUI. I doubt the existing thing was on their radar (I can't read the site right now to see if they acknowledge it, because "This site was paused as it reached its usage limits."). But it was the first thing that came up when I searched github hoping to find a repository because the site's down.
Now that the site's back up, I have a few more thoughts:
As @WilhelmVonWeiner pointed out, it's proprietary, so we should expect to eventually need to pay for it. (No big deal, but I'd rather know what the terms of the expected eventual monetization will be prior to making my workflow depend on a thing.)
The site doesn't, anywhere, say who the developer/developers is/are. I'm a bit uneasy about hitting download/run for something that I'm going to grant access to my source control without either being able to look at source code or know where the thing comes from.
They don't acknowledge that they're taking the name of a FOSS project in the same space.
Based on inspection of the Mac download, without running it, it looks like it's some kind of Kotlin multiplatform gadget. Probably based on jetpack compose.
The screenshots look interesting, but I'd like to know more about who's doing this and what their plans are before running it and giving it access to my source control.
getting this now 🥲:
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edit: oh TIL, caches in lobste.rs. nice!
When I try to run it on Windows with the NVDA screen reader, I get a message box saying "Failed to launch JVM". I assume their JVM packaging tool is removing the Java Access Bridge. Can anyone tell what tool they're using to package this? I'm more concerned for other apps using that tool than I am for this app specifically.
On the Mac version, it looks like they’re using this one:
https://www.jetbrains.com/compose-multiplatform/
I assume they’re using that on Windows too.