I have often thought about what a truly intuitive, simple, easy, user-friendly VCS would look like. Git is fine for programmers, but what about non-programmers,

I have often thought about what a truly intuitive, simple, easy, user-friendly VCS would look like. Git is fine for programmers, but what about non-programmers, or student-programmers? Would it be possible to make a VCS that my mother could use without sacrificing too much power? One thing I would give up easily is decentralisation - a centralised model is more straightforward, and, for better or for worse, most people use Git in a centralised fashion. Conflict resolution is one of the hardest version control tasks for beginners. Maybe it could be made easier by making the VCS AST-aware for more legible diffs, or by automating conflict resolution altogether with CRDTs or OT. There were some interesting, very different takes on version control envisioned for darklang: https://blog.darklang.com/how-dark-deploys-code-in-50ms/ https://blog.darklang.com/how-dark-deploys-code-in-50ms/