shame I had not heard of this till today.

Also loved Aperture and also a shame this is the first time I've heard of this tool.

Aperture was the best. I miss it.

For now: Give Jujutsu (https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/) a try, it's good whilst maintaining a level of compatibility with git which is good for gradual adoption and uptake.

Avoid: Pijul. I doubt it will succeed in getting wide adoption. Some of the reasons already covered by others comments in this thread so don't want to repeat.

Wish: I really wish darcs was rebooted and made a comeback. What can we do to make it happen? I heard a version 3 is a work in progress. I am also aware of this new initiative (GitHub equivalent but for darcs): https://smeder.ee

There is also this for Darcs hosting:

https://hub.darcs.net/

> I really wish darcs was rebooted and made a comeback. What can we do to make it happen?

The biggest thing we need is more developers.

What topics are you interested in?

anything related to big data?

- https://www.datacouncil.ai/bay-2025

- https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit

For Postgres take a look at this:

https://www.crunchydata.com/developers/tutorials

Thank you, I'll practice on it for sure.

I was wondering same .... found this:

https://docs.fxtwitter.com/en/latest/index.html#

My understanding is the volunteers do make some money helping via services like this:

https://www.directly.com

(looks like they got acquired and had some big companies using them so google using something similar I imagine: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/css-corp-acquires-s...)

Based on the fact that your ideal is to have a similar experience to heroku than managing your own server setting up reverse proxies take a look at these options:

1) https://dokku.com - lets you turn your light sail instance basically into heroku

2) https://render.com

3) https://fly.io

4) If you have aws credits this is their heroku equivalent: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk

above is not what I do but would be the options I would pursue if I understand your preference and requirement correctly.

These look like great options, I'll check them out. Dokku looks like it could be a good balance between offering a managed server experience while letting me deploy multiple apps to a single instance

I think the alternatives to consider would be:

- https://www.purescript.org/

- https://reasonml.github.io/en/

Or like others have suggested typescript and the usual libs and frameworks

Reason is mostly not about JS compilation any more, the alternative is really ReScript.