Naturally these kinds of having a language island create some attrition regarding build tooling, integration with existing ecosystem and who is able to contribute to what.

So lets see how it evolves, even with my C bashing, I was a much happier XFCE user than with GNOME and GJS all over the place.

Everytime their name pops up it's inevitably "oh some thankless extremely technical low level work leading to impressive/long-awaited features"

I think its a step backwards, as you loose tight control over dependencies. E.g., in case of a security issue, one cannot easily patch all containers if they are blackboxes.

IMHO, the right tool for this is an improved package manager such as Nix or Guix (which incidentally also support containers in their own way). Perhaps the future should be a Nix-like package manager for dependency management, and container-ization for security and resource limits.

This is not a "full clone" but "something like GitHub" but for your own private server.

> I understand that the server-side implementation is based on GitHub as a black box

No, it's not. The serverside is implemented in Scala using a JGit as a GIT library for the files and H2 database for saving the metadata.

It's quite possible that gitbucket is better than github or gitlab for some reason, and if so I'd like to know that reason; "It's identical on the surface and different under the hood (not necessarily better, just different)" doesn't seem like a particularly great way to generate interest...