I don’t want to convert anyone. :-) Just because you suggested it can’t be easier. I warmly recommend anyone to try it though.

Gitlab-the-company isn’t really much different from GitHub-the-company, to be honest.

Migrating Fossil: scp my-repo.fossil ssh://new/repos/ - tada

It depends on whether Git is a requirement. If it’s not, the infrastructure requirements for Forgejo are still higher than Darcshub or Fossil. If you’d like to have Git with a decent web interface, but you don’t absolutely need pull requests or whatever, Stagit is another lovely option.

I use Fossil (a DVCS that’s not Git-based) for most of my code. The main reason is that self-hosting (and keeping backups of) it is incredibly easy: One Fossil repository is one file. For those who absolutely require Git interaction for any reason, one-way mirrors are perfectly possible.

He has good reasons, in my opinion.

designed for speed, flexibility, and a clean coding experience

So, Acme for CLI?