>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.
You do you, friend
Re:Jujutsu for Busy Devs
by petesergeant on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @09:14AM
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> What other tools do people do that for?
Text editors, programming languages, shells, VCSs, nix/guix…
“Trauma” is a bit much.
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.