The Hard Part of Learning a Language

Re:The Hard Part of Learning a Language by pydry on Saturday May 30, 2020 @08:13AM (#23360594)

There's something of a paradox to build tools - people like to have one in "their" language, but most languages are ill suited for it. Half of the people need something really simple. The other half need something extremely complicated. There's a mountain of edge cases, most of which people don't even notice, but which make other people's lives a misery.

For git, I felt kind of sad that "linus branding" helped it to beat out mercurial. git's UI is kind of monstrous (even linus admitted that). It's one of those rare technologies where a bad UI is branded as "you're just not smart enough to understand it".

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Re:The Hard Part of Learning a Language by smitty1e on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:57AM (#23361220)

To that point, the bun fight moved from the back end to the UI when git came along.

Personally, if you're not using magit[1], you should have a look.

Ridiculously powerful; check. Open source; check. Works like a champ in a terminal over SSH; check, check, check.

[1] https://magit.vc/

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Re:The Hard Part of Learning a Language by lerax on Saturday May 30, 2020 @01:07PM (#23362665)

Magit is great! I use everyday. The more useful feature for me is partial staging by simple text selection. Help so much to create better atomic commits

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