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Because developers spend a lot of their day working with them. And it can take a significant amount of time getting to grips with a new one you are unfamiliar
by ris 13y ago
Because developers spend a lot of their day working with them.
And it can take a significant amount of time getting to grips with a new one you are unfamiliar with.
And you can often quite easily get yourself in quite a serious tangle with complex merges and operations done with VCSs leading to a lot of cursing and hatred for a particular tool.
A pair of shoes is just a pair of shoes, but I'd still quite like a pair I find comfortable, thanks.
- sixthloginorso 13y agoMaybe, but it's not something worth making into a political issue into itself, when the GNU project has actual political issues in mind, as close as they get to when speaking of a Software stack, like making sure that the management of a certain project is as close to their ideology as possible, as a political organization which writes Software (which is what the FSF and the GNU project always were, and a pair of beneficial ones at that).