[picafrost]

That's a weird take-away from the post, where the only time ICE is mentioned is

> Putting aside GitHub’s relationship with ICE,

and the rest of the article provides technical reasons.

[aadishv]

I feel like that's the whole point of the OP. I agree with the overall post but mentioning the ICE relationship seems to detract from the main point.

"I hate GitHub because X Y and Z features are bad" is a good reason to move away; "I hate GitHub because one of their thousands of enterprise customers does not align with my political views" is not, in my opinion.

For the record, I do not support ICE

[MildlySerious]

People protesting ICE do not do so out of political concern, but humanitarian concern.

This seems like a minor nitpick as those two are intimately tangled up, but it matters to make the distinction. Standing up for others is not petty or self-serving and that's exactly what this sort of conflation can falsely imply.

[etyp]

I read it as "this was a big news story which we care about. You may know it, but it is not the primary reason. Here is the primary reason."

[jenadine]

That's why the article put that reason aside

[latexr]

It does signal/imply that even if GitHub fixed every technical grievance tomorrow, Zig might still not come back.

[DeathArrow]

>and the rest of the article provides technical reasons

The post ends with an indictment of capitalism.