Unison
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“One possible shape is something like unison-lang's CAS AST model”
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“It's a great piece of software”
“I like unison but it isn't super well suited to the 'background sync' workflow”
Caveats and dissent
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I used to make a hybrid bitmap-vector font called Unison [1] a decade ago”
“The tooling takes a little getting used to but it’s extremely powerful.”
“There's support for webhooks on Unison Share as well”
“Unison code is published on https://share.unison-lang.org/ which is itself open source”
Threads where it came up
- Unison 1.0 7 mentions
- Creepy Crawlies 1 mention
- Squeak/Smalltalk 6.1 Release Notes 1 mention
- I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux 1 mention
- Making Software: How to make a font 1 mention
- How Version Control Will Evolve for the Agent Boom 1 mention
Also written as Unison Share, unison. Data: unison.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 11
“We can make do with local pet names, like how Unison works.”
“big fan of Unison”
“For file transfer, I mostly use rsync, Git, or Unison.”
“One possible shape is something like unison-lang's CAS AST model”
“It's a great piece of software”
“The best current analog for the kind of code forge we'd build is Unison's forge”
“Use Unison Share, it's great for all that!”
“I like unison but it isn't super well suited to the 'background sync' workflow”
“here's a side-by-side comparison guide between Java and Unison”
“I'm looking for a far more hands on”
“Overall I think Unison would be a nice implementation language for really anything that needs to make interesting use of hashing”