In this episode, Martin and Edward talk with Brendan Forster about the new and rewritten GitHub Desktop, avoiding the second-system syndrome and building cross-platform Electron apps.

Brendan Forster is a Senior Engineer at GitHub, working with Git tooling and assorted other open source projects.

Introducing the Podcast * Martin's pull request to remove all the obscenities in libgit2 * Git Minutes

GitHub Desktop * GitHub Desktop * GitHub Desktop, the source code * Building GitHub Desktop: How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App * Octokit, the API for GitHub * Dugite, the Node bindings for Git * Squirrel * Learning Git * The GitHub GraphQL API * Reactive Extensions