Flirt: The Native Backend
Summary
The article reports on Flirt's native backend development, describing goals to support multiple backends with a consistent UX and a Git-based storage approach. It analyzes why git-notes and git-appraise are insufficient and explains the use of a custom ref pointing to a commit containing spirit.json, along with future plans for thread handling and backends. It also outlines upcoming features (commenting on diffs, threads, and thread relocation) and the outlook for completing more backends.