VS and Firefox don't demand you understand writing plugins to use them. They wrap their internals with an interface that has well documented entry points, but

VS and Firefox don't demand you understand writing plugins to use them. They wrap their internals with an interface that has well documented entry points, but you don't need to delve into them to get a lot of value out of them. > As a software engineer you have the unique privilege where the people that make your tools have literally the exact same job as you, so you can pretty easily understand their work. That's not how that works. Writing frontend apps doesn't teach you MUMPS. _ At the end of the day Git gets "easy" but honestly most people who say Git is easy are like people saying JS is easy: the people who know either well enough will claim anyone who thinks either is easy simply doesn't know them well enough Linus himself: Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.