An opinion stated to a community that (generally speaking) thinks that Git is a pretty good piece of software. Snarky, I'm sorry, but you're 100% right. I grew

An opinion stated to a community that (generally speaking) thinks that Git is a pretty good piece of software. Snarky, I'm sorry, but you're 100% right. I grew up in a world where there was tons of optimism in software development. Programs like HyperCard, FileMaker, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic/WinForms, RealBasic, etc. promised to make (the most common type of) application development accessible to everybody with minimal training. HyperCard's most successful developers didn't come from software development backgrounds-- they were artists, journalists, historians, etc. (See this excellent article: http://www.filfre.net/2016/10/the-manhole/ http://www.filfre.net/2016/10/the-manhole/ ) All that's abandoned now. The optimism is gone. Developers who gave a crap seemed to have disappeared a decade ago. The open source development methodology, who never gave a crap about ease-of-use even when Apple and Microsoft used it as the foundation of their products, have taken over all software development. And I sit at my cubicle, thinking about the now-dead world that was emerging back in the mid-90s, thinking: I could have been a plumber instead.