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The relevant question is, why would a stranger take time out of their life to evangelize an open source VCS tool? What other tools do people do that for? Not m
by nchmy 1y ago
The relevant question is, why would a stranger take time out of their life to evangelize an open source VCS tool?
What other tools do people do that for? Not many. I see the most similar language and behaviour with regards to uv, which similarly revolutionized/simplified python tooling.
Likewise mise, which makes it similarly frictionless to install and manage tooling and their versions across projects and system-wide.
The evangelizing for these things comes because these tools start to heal the trauma that came from immense friction. We want others to be similarly liberated.
For those who say "I don't feel friction/trauma with git, legacy Python tooling etc", I can only say that you're living in Plato's cave/the matrix/in a cult/with Stockholm syndrome and just don't know what you're missing out on.
- riwsky 1y ago“Trauma” is a bit much.
- nchmy 1y agoDefinitely applies more to uv than jj, but jj is still immensely liberating. To the extent that people are willing to evangelize it to no gain of their own.
- petesergeant 1y ago> What other tools do people do that for? Text editors, programming languages, shells, VCSs, nix/guix…
- Levitz 1y ago>The relevant question is, why would a stranger take time out of their life to evangelize an open source VCS tool? To make a point? To prove that "they are right"? People do this constantly, tools, libraries, languages... All the time really.
- nchmy 1y agoYou do you, friend