It is evangelism. Unabashedly. I think the Plato’s cave analogy is honestly apt. Git was fine. I used git for ages. I loved its underlying model, and I think i

It is evangelism. Unabashedly. I think the Plato’s cave analogy is honestly apt. Git was fine. I used git for ages. I loved its underlying model, and I think it’s brilliant. But it has a lot of sharp edges and a lot of tasks that are painful or frustrating, and people either opt to restrict themselves to a tiny subset to avoid the pain or they carefully curate a workflow that mostly does the job over the course of years. Suddenly within a week of trying a new tool you just… don’t carry any of that any more. It’s like going from GOTOs to structured programming with encapsulated functions. People made many useful programs with GOTO. Some people were more principled than others, but we all got by. But it turns out that functions and loops are a way better mental model for control flow than GOTO. Nobody had to switch and there were plenty of holdouts. But eventually the benefits were impossible to ignore. People like Dijkstra evangelized structured programming because they “saw the light”.