[RFC] A huge problem with Github diff

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 11/14/12, Alex Rønne Petersen <alex at lycus.org> wrote:
> Or we could switch to Phabricator for our entire review process which
> has an absolutely awesome side-by-side diff and is generally a fantastic
> tool for distributed-style software projects.
>
> See my email to dmd-internals:
> http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/dmd-internals/2012-October/004900.html

I don't see what's awesome about it, for one thing the code display
pages don't seem to be static HTML (or whatever you call it), because
every time I enter into codeview I have to wait a few seconds for all
the code to render. For big changes it's annoying to having to wait so
long. And if I hit the back button and forward again, it starts to
re-render again and I have to wait again. Clicking the show context
can take over 5 seconds to display, and then Firefox almost freezes
because the CPU usage keeps spiking to 90%. Pretty lame if you ask me.

It's also inconsistent, my font settings I've set in the control panel
aren't applied everywhere.

And what is Arcanist, it seems it's betaware like msys, except much
less tested on Windows? Quote: "NOTE: Windows support is relatively
new and incomplete, file bugs when you run into issues." And you even
need to install PHP to make it work.

And then there are things like making the code block button
automatically insert some sort of PHP/Ruby code. Does it even support
D syntax in comments?

The last thing we need now is to make the the barrier to entry for
contributions skyrocket.