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A big chunk of the industry joining in past decade has never seen/used anything but git, so it's the one hammer they have available.
by gedy 5y ago
A big chunk of the industry joining in past decade has never seen/used anything but git, so it's the one hammer they have available.
- quotemstr 5y agoIs that even a bad thing? If people are familiar with git --- its command syntax, its commit model, its collaboration setup --- why not let them keep using this model? Isn't it better for everyone if we put a few hundred people on targeted scalability fixes for git instead of making a few million people drop productive work and learn a new tool? I mean, most of the people in industry today have known no character encoding except ASCII and its supersets --- and that's a good thing!
- Uberphallus 5y agoGit, while better now, it still allows people who are just familiar to shoot themselves in the foot.
- quotemstr 5y agoSo? It's the standard. Anything else starts with -1000 points. Something like hg might be better, but not better enough to be worth the cost of breaking uniformity in the industry.
- prionassembly 5y agoI never get the footgun argument. If you need a gun, you're liable to shoot yourself. Programming in general is more and more accessible to wider audiences, but it hasn't become intrinsically easier.
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