by wiz21c on 6/28/24, 9:29 AM
When you imagine that each dot is a program and that behind each of these dots, there is at least on person, it gives a very good appreciation of how complex each of these projects are. These are pretty big human architectures..
by pmontra on 6/28/24, 5:34 AM
Navigating the galaxies is frustratingly hard.
One finger touch moves forward, but it makes very hard to touch a point and see what it is. I keep selecting something past it, especially for large dots, which I'm curious to see what they are.
Rotating the device changes the direction but it's hard to point towards a specific star.
On the good side it's very nice to look at. I wish there would be something as fast as this for navigating real galaxies, with of course better controls.
by omoikane on 6/28/24, 6:05 AM
This looks very nice, but a 2D visualization might have been more practical. For example, the fact that the dot size represents the total number of dependents is obscured by the fact that the dot sizes are also a function of camera distance.
by mdtrooper on 6/28/24, 6:18 AM
by yayr on 6/28/24, 9:36 AM
just to be a bit astronomically nitpicky ... ;-)
they are more like star clusters than galaxies. Galaxies usually have a lot of mostly circular momentum with arms forming etc.
might be even the better marketing term "Software star clusters"
not to mention the widely accepted hypothesis that galaxies require dark matter to be held together... we don't want to dive into the analogy here for software, or do we? ;-)
by antifa on 6/29/24, 12:51 PM
Seems unusable with unintuitive undiscoverable controls, standard touch screen controls like pinch-zoom and pan don't work on Firefox for Android. The about page says something about rotating your device, but that's a pretty bold assumption that the user wants to do that, or isn't currently on a subway/bus or otherwise in a fixed position like a stand, large tablet, or the user could have various disabilities.
by tantalor on 6/28/24, 2:22 PM
My God! It's full of leftpads
by araes on 6/29/24, 5:39 PM
Wandering around in the javascript realm, there was some amusing stuff out at the borders.
Eject the warp core: https://i.imgur.com/h1ngR7A.png
Barren bare defaults: https://i.imgur.com/hLWXqER.png
Ideal atomic separation: https://i.imgur.com/3lmujgV.png
Rides his black horse upon the horizon: https://i.imgur.com/e6NnsDv.png
Not joke part, it's a neat visualization, just a bit confusing on the distribution. There were a few, like Microsoft being way off in their own world that were kind of obvious. Yet much of the distribution seemed like stuff that was related, but got put way off somewhere without any clear link. I ended up finding angularJS refs way out in the border.
by dim13 on 6/28/24, 8:11 AM
As for Go, the dataset looks very-very old and outdated.
At least 5 to 10 years old.
by ahmadnoid on 6/28/24, 3:08 PM
Am I the only one who is getting some sort of gambling site (go-search.org) when clicking on golang galaxy?
by theoa on 6/28/24, 6:48 AM
Wonderful!
Want more.
Every blob displays its icon
Mouseover over displays much more stuff
Right-click: the world is your oyster
Ctrl-click: make a group, etc, much much more
Ultimately: create 3D bash/OS/
by me_bx on 6/28/24, 8:32 AM
From the same author:
* Related subreddits graph - https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=linux
* Map of reddit - https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/?x=18239&y=12514&z=32433.55559794627&v=2
by JohnScolaro on 6/29/24, 12:17 AM
Cool website, but I'm in a barbershop right now and can't wave my phone around like a madman to see the map. I'd love it if I could drag the sphere around with my finger on the screen.
by j1mmie on 6/28/24, 11:09 PM
Saw an odd little cluster in distance of the NPM galaxy and decided to explore more:
https://i.imgur.com/PIXKU1A.pngIt's strongcanary-a through strongcanary-z, and more.
They're packages designed to test strongly-connected components in a dependency graph.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/strongcanary-a
Looks like this tool passes the test! Cool that it was so identifiable from a distance
by dirkc on 6/28/24, 8:58 AM
by peteforde on 6/28/24, 6:51 AM
I'm a bit confused by the Rubygems visualization. Many popular gems appear to be missing, and the role of Rails in the ecosystem is something you could miss if you weren't explicitly looking for it.
Cool viz, just not 100% clear what I'm looking at.
by arendtio on 7/2/24, 7:47 AM
The graphics remind me very much of Netwars [1], although the controls of Netwars were a little bit better. However, this feels so good compared to some randomly generated universe, as you know that every star is something meaningful. And you can find actually helpful stuff: I just found logrus [2] a Go library for logging, which sounds cool :-D
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWars
2: https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus
by etwigg on 6/28/24, 7:03 AM
super cool, but no jvm maven central?
by Kuinox on 6/28/24, 8:17 AM
Lots of star in the nuget galaxy, but there is not several package I worked on :(.
by smartmic on 6/28/24, 9:16 AM
Impressive visualization, for sure. But a honest question: What are real use cases of such a representation? I mean, can (and will) this be used in a productive manner for solving what kind of problems?
by BoppreH on 6/28/24, 10:28 AM
The gyroscope aiming on mobile is fantastic!
I've never seen a demo with such small latency and responsive to small movements. Even more impressive by being a web page and not a native web.
by rpgwaiter on 6/28/24, 7:08 AM
This is so cool! I’d love to see this kind of thing for nixpkgs
by marapuru on 6/28/24, 5:40 AM
Interesting and very cool!
But since navigating around is not easy, would it be an idea to implement a game like controller that allows you to move around?
Current controls are not working so well.
by vavooom on 6/28/24, 5:42 AM
by chasetca on 6/28/24, 8:18 PM
This project reminds me of Gource. Both Gource and this are fun novelties to play with but this it from the project level to the registry level.
Would have liked to see vcpkg and Conan in here, too. I imagine zlib, OpenSSL, and a few other staples would be the center.
by chuckadams on 6/28/24, 10:25 PM
Couldn’t make the Elm galaxy show up on my phone. Anyone know what accounts for the disconnected islands? I know Elm has a fairly closed-off core development process that could be part of it, but can’t otherwise tell…
by bombela on 6/28/24, 12:46 PM
The UX is garbage. It tracks my phone's motion, making it incredibly jittery (I guess I don't have the rock steady hands required?). And one finger starts an automatic zoom, while two fingers unzoom.
by matesz on 6/28/24, 4:57 AM
by pyeri on 6/28/24, 6:54 AM
Off topic, I still couldn't find an easy or seamless way to search GitHub repos by keywords (repo name, coding language, etc) and have them order by most stars descending.
by adityaathalye on 6/28/24, 8:08 AM
This is art! I wonder... What if the depth at which a package first appears depends on its release date? And what if each universe evolves in terms of package releases?
by tcmart14 on 6/28/24, 11:00 PM
How is this data getting populated? I go to click into rust to see if I project I work on is there, and it isn't, even though its been on crates.io for years.
by witx on 6/28/24, 8:47 AM
This is such a cool visualization. It's so interesting to see that Rust's embedded libraries are on a more separate, dense, group.
by jackcviers3 on 6/28/24, 1:01 PM
No maven central?
I imagine it would be pretty large, too.
by jzer0cool on 6/28/24, 8:12 AM
How does this manage to plot so many points yet running pretty smoothly here on a low end computer browser?
by cloudwalk9 on 6/28/24, 5:40 AM
I imagine Gentoo would be extremely difficult to visualize because USE flags add a 4th spatial dimension...
by edweis on 6/28/24, 5:51 AM
Beautiful work
by visarga on 6/28/24, 7:43 AM
Where is CPAN, I don't see it.
by zheninghuang on 6/28/24, 10:47 AM
Doing a Research paper Galaxies would also be interesting, especially in the domain of AI.
by gregorvand on 6/28/24, 7:56 AM
This is very hard to understand
by ggm on 6/28/24, 8:27 AM
Brew but not ports or pkgsrc
by robertlagrant on 6/28/24, 8:25 AM
Incredible. The amount of effort that goes into each of those dots.
by DrNosferatu on 6/28/24, 8:36 PM
Couldn’t find the TensorFlow family in the Python galaxy…
by xnorswap on 6/28/24, 2:48 PM
Nuget has a lovely SampleDependency constellation.
by kagevf on 6/30/24, 2:06 AM
Too bad there isn't one for quicklisp...
by quectophoton on 6/28/24, 3:46 PM
Links in the Go galaxy point to a casino page.
by kreyenborgi on 6/28/24, 7:07 AM
Fun. Needs haskell hackage :-)
by rmorey on 6/28/24, 2:51 PM
by drofmij on 6/28/24, 6:24 PM
can we do one for the java + maven repository galaxy?
by classified on 6/28/24, 9:47 AM
I'm a bit disappointed that it has Homebrew, but not MacPorts, which is superior in my opinion.
by jatkindev on 6/29/24, 4:09 AM
SO f*ng cool!!!!
by sachahjkl on 6/28/24, 3:06 PM
no nix pkgs, what's even the point
by klibertp on 6/28/24, 3:52 PM
Is it just me, my extensions, or are the controls broken in Firefox?
by Nischalj10 on 6/28/24, 4:45 PM
this is crazyyyy
by ramesh31 on 6/28/24, 2:04 PM
Holy crap, Bower still exists?
by s2l on 6/29/24, 1:22 PM
Now imagine, if there was a timeline to show the evolution.
by viveknathani_ on 6/28/24, 1:17 PM
love this!
by flkenosad on 6/28/24, 5:47 PM
Shit that's cool.
by KolmogorovComp on 6/28/24, 6:58 AM
It seems cool but is completely unusable on mobile. It still amaze me how today people do not think about designing mobile-first website.
The gap between devs and users is far from closed yet.
