GitHub Desktop with Brendan Forster

In this episode, Martin and Edward talk with Brendan Forster about the new and rewritten GitHub Desktop, avoiding the second-system syndrome and building cross-platform Electron apps. Brendan Forster is a Senior Engineer at GitHub, working with Git tooling and assorted other open source projects. Introducing the Podcast Martin's pull request to remove all the obscenities in libgit2 Git Minutes GitHub Desktop GitHub Desktop GitHub Desktop, the source code Building GitHub Desktop: How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App Octokit, the API for GitHub Dugite, the Node bindings for Git Squirrel Learning Git The GitHub GraphQL API Reactive Extensions