alt Hacker NewsWorking for a few years at Facebook, and then returning to the normal world, it was like stepping back in time -- I really think that the mainstream git culture (by which I mostly mean "github") achieved a local maxima around 2012, and has been holding the industry back since :(
(Like GH finally has some support for stacks, 15 years late, with an implementation which is somehow more complicated and less powerful than the prior art...)
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forrestthewoods • yesterday at 9:31 PM
> [Git/GitHub] achieved a local maxima around 2012, and has been holding the industry back since :(
I agree so hard. It’s inertia is too strong and we’ve stalled progress for a decade.
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As someone who came to terms with dying on the mercurial hill, someone who forgot more gitisms than there are to learn in the first place because git cli's inconsistencies and poor taste hurts and neuters my memory, yeah, I relate.
Most people aren't VCS nerds, most are of a generation that only ever knew git. Learning git was a prerequisite they engaged with out of necessity, not by choice, not after exploring the problem space and pondering about different approaches. Learning git was difficult, and the more they learned the more they discovered they had more to learn, including the little things, obscure details and a plethora of paper-cuts. For them (again, I suspect they are a majority), the perspective of learning something else comes with the expectation of a similar daunting effort and steep cognitive reluctance.
That's the paradox of git as I see it: had it been a simple and easy system to pick-up, it would probably have been replaced, and/or the VCS space would be much more competitive.