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That hasn't really been the case for a while imo: Martin works at Google and is paid to work on jj (there are also other Google employees who contribute, not sure whether they're paid to). jj is in use (wide use? No idea) alongside Google's internal tool (piper) with which it can interact (and with which it has some features in common) because jj has a pluggable backend architecture.

While I hate to engage in speculation, tell spooky stories, or screech at people about the evil CLA you have to sign in order to contribute, my personal opinion is that if Google were ever to start throwing their weight around, the project would be forked in short order and development would continue as normal – it has momentum, plenty of non-Google contributors, and a community. It's also not a product per se, though as we're about to find out, you can certainly build products on top of it – that probably makes it less likely for its current home to suddenly become proprietorial about it.

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Hexagons do tile the Euclidean plane perfectly. They are the largest of the three n-gons that do so.

I wouldn't say it's correct to say that GEOS isn't particularly sophisticated. A lot of (certainly not all) GEOS algorithms are now ported from JTS, the primary author of which is Martin Davis (aka Dr JTS), who works at Crunchy Data, who provide the PostGIS extension. So the chain (again, mostly) goes JTS -> GEOS -> {PostGIS, Shapely} -> … . Martin's work is at the cutting edge of open-source GIS-focused computational geometry, and has been for a long time (of course, industry has its own tools, but that's not what we're talking about).

I can sort of see your point about the merits of global, spheroidal geometry, certainly from a user's perspective. But there's no getting around the fact that the geometry calculations are both slower (I'm tempted to say "inherently"…) and far more complex to implement (just look at how painful it is to write a performant, accurate r- or r*-tree for spherical coordinates) along every dimension. That's not going to change any time soon, so the projection workflow probably isn't going anywhere.

I'm not a regular Zed user, but this isn't true: I simultaneously ran the Ruff and Pyright LSPs when I used it last week.

You are confused or wrong, and you are making incorrect assertions about a system "lying" to you on that basis: you can see this for yourself by typing `jj git init` (or just `jj init`) in an empty directory, touching some files, then running `jj status`. You will see a listing of the added files. The same happens if you commit these files, then make some changes to their contents: `jj status` will show the changed files, and `jj diff` will show the diff per file.

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Agreed. As someone who often advocates for the use of Rust to speed up perf-sensitive Python functions (and in particular, in the GIS domain), this sounds like they haven't fully understood the problem or thought about how to solve it more efficiently with a spatial index (which is easily done in Geopandas, let alone PostGIS). However, the post is a bit vague on details so who really knows.

I see two sibling comments with reports of patchy reliability, so I'll note that it's been rock-solid for me (multiple daily deploys every weekday) since I last commented on it (about a year ago?)

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