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As an "older" programmer, I feel the opposite. Git became mainstream very recently, though admittedly it's been a good ten years or more. I sometimes think youn

As an "older" programmer, I feel the opposite. Git became mainstream very recently, though admittedly it's been a good ten years or more. I sometimes think younger programmers' attitudes toward git are borderline cultish—git or GitHub is not required to do programming—it's just another tool. I half expected something would have replaced it by now.

schacon 2y ago
Git's been around for almost 20 years now. I would say fairly dominant for 15 or so.
keybored 2y ago
Git is overrated for a DVCS. But it’s not overrated considering the old-school competition like SVN. The assumptions of SVN makes it feel like a dinosaur now.
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gmueckl 2y ago
I have to agree on the cult aspect. This is unfortunate because better tools exist already today, but lots of people refuse to even entertain that possibility.
- teqsun 2y ago
  I feel about git how I presume vim users feel. Maybe there are better ways, but I've become so accustomed to how it works that I doubt I could easily switch to anything else.
  - gmueckl 2y ago
    All the more reason to look beyond your comfort zone now and then!
golergka 2y ago
Already in 2010-2012 majority of projects I encountered were using git. Last time I saw an SVN-based project was in 2015, before I migrated it to git.