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Well, we're all saddled with git's total disregard for the user experience. We'd still be struggling with the positive and negative aspects of open source soft
by theoh 8y ago
Well, we're all saddled with git's total disregard for the user experience.
We'd still be struggling with the positive and negative aspects of open source software if Linus hadn't existed, just as the first world war would probably have happened anyway if Gavrilo Princip hadn't precipitated it. Bear in mind that however good a coder Linus might be, RMS is still an influential figure for political reasons despite checking out of the coding business years ago. Politics, charisma of one sort or another, celebrity...
- GhostVII 8y agoI quite like gits user experience, personally. If you don't like it, there are lots of tools built on top of it that make it easier to use. Not sure what the issue is.
- watt 8y agoGit could be a showcase of inconsistent and confusing UX. If you like it, and you don't see any issue with it, then you know nothing about good UX.
- monadgonad 8y agoThis is unnecessarily cruel. Design is subjective: someone liking git's UX design doesn't mean they "know nothing", just that they have very different opinions from you. And please don't respond to this telling me all the ways git's design is bad; I'm not disagreeing with that.
- GhostVII 8y agoI never said it was good UX in general, just that it is good UX for me. And with tools like git one you learn the commands the UX doesn't matter. For a developer tool I think that is fine.