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SourceFS: A 2h+ Android build becomes a 15m task with a virtual filesystem

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137 points cdesai | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 12:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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forrestthewoods ◴[22 Oct 25 16:21 UTC] No.45671468[source]▶
The world desperately needs a good open source VFS that supports Windows, macOS, and Linux. Waaaaay too many companies have independently reinvented this wheel. Someone just needs to do it once, open source it, and then we can all move on.
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1. 7e ◴[22 Oct 25 16:49 UTC] No.45671858[source]▶
This. Such a product also solves some AI problems by matting you version very large amounts of training data in a VCS like git, which can then be farmed out for distributed unit testing.
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2. forrestthewoods ◴[22 Oct 25 18:54 UTC] No.45673550[source]▶
HuggingFace bought XetHub which is really cool. It’s built for massive blobs of weight data. So it’s not a general purpose VCS VFS. The world still needs the latter.

I’d be pretty happy if Git died and it was replacing with a full Sapling implementation. Git is awful so that’d be great. Sigh.