I may be a rare case, but I honestly started using git and vim in particular long before the heaps of hype that built up around the tools, before I even starte

I may be a rare case, but I honestly started using git and vim in particular long before the heaps of hype that built up around the tools, before I even started reading HN actually. I found the tools I went with to be more intuitive and easier to learn than the others. When tools are legitimately pleasurable to use, developers talk about them, and 'hype' builds up.