Comment by notachatbot123
1 month ago
I look at the page and leave without any clue as to what it actually does. Agents and AI are mentioned so I assume it might just be incoherent slop?
The person behind this boasts on Twitter, that they fired all their remote developers and used AI instead.
Judging by tweets, this project is 2-3 years in the making.
> Lix is a universal version control system that can diff any file format (.xlsx, .pdf, .docx, etc).
> Unlike Git's line-based diffs, Lix understands file structure. Lix sees price: 10 → 12 or cell B4: pending → shipped, not "line 4 changed" or "binary files differ".
How? I have a custom binary file format, how would Lix be able to interpret this?
> Lix adds a version control system on top of SQL databases that let's you query virtual tables like file, file_history, etc. via plain SQL. These table's are version controlled.
What does SQL have to do with everything?
Thanks for the feedback.
AI agents are the pull right now to why version control is needed outside of software engineering.
The mistake in the blog post is triggering comparisons to git, which leads to “why is this better/different than git?”.
If you have a custom binary file, you can write a plugin for it! :)
Lix runs on top of a SQL database because we initially built lix on top of git but needed:
- database semantics (transactions, acid, etc.)
- SQL to express history queries (diffing arbitrary file formats cant be solved with a simple diff() API)