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Go for it. I bet you could do it in a week.

I'll fork it in about 30 seconds.

And neither of us will get any traction, because the QGIS team has a history and proven track record within the GIS community, and neither of us are attempting to solve a problem that community has.

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The community is relying on the obscure process flows they've learned and optimized for their own purpose; replacing QGIS will probably wipe out jobs.

Couldn't happen sooner.

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Then I encourage you to kick down that fence.
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I don't care about traction. I hate AI-haters.
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You have absolutely no idea of the complexity of QGIS or its place in the world.
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You don't need to understand things if you have a maxed out Claude subscription.
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Lol.. i have 20$ codex subscription.
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Oh no, don't want to hurt the tech billionaires' feelings.

The majority of LLM use is to make slop or answer simple questions that could have been searched. The mythical AI-Chad Coders are so rare that catching them in the anti-slop dragnet will not meaningfully decrease the quality of a big project.

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You can clone anything in 15 minutes with AI. Just like you can start a child in 15 minutes.

The question is whether or not you are willing to support your creation for the next two decades.

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I bet millions of moved to deno, the javascript runtime... and they are ending support next year... after running for a few years only. You seem to be not questioning them.

Second, majority of apps do not last 2 decades.. and that is okay... someone else can fork the repo and continue if needed.

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Are you even remotely aware of what the project this thread is about is?

If not you may want to familiarize yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QGIS

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but you can just fork the entire repo and continue development with AI yourself, why the need to rewrite it from 0?
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It's my impression that forks like these last only until they make the HN front page and then are quietly abandoned.
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Wrong... I support all such clones: https://github.com/goodappsstore ... drop your misplaced assumptions.
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You've supported them for all of "checks git history" 2 days!

What a track record!

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Still better than your assumptions.
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A 2 days old anonymous Github repo of random slop is your proof? Okay.
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And your proof is what? Your assumptions? Okay.
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a Rust rewite is silently being crafted somewhere, and TBH - myself really expected QGIS to get a total rewrite much sooner.
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Dumb mafioso.
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