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Thanks for checking it out!

Would be great to get any feedback you might have if you get the chance to install/test it out.

Interesting thought - do you mean like a line of text that displayed above that verbally described what's happening?

I was considering adding some more detailed text-based output on the command-line detailing what was going on, but I didn't think about adding it directly into the image/video.

Hey there fellow Mac user! And thanks for testing it out - were you able to get it installed or is it still chugging along?

Yes I feel your pain with Homebrew which can take forever just to check for updates on installed packages, before it even gets to installing anything new.

I know the current installation method of having to first install Manim's dependencies is not ideal, but in most of my testing it was relatively painless.

However going forward I am going to be looking for ways to make it a single install instead of various steps that differ across platforms.

Haha wow you posted this before I could! I created Git-Sim and hope that folks can get some use and value out of it. Happy to answer any questions anyone might have, and especially looking for feedback so that I can improve the tool. Also if anyone is interested in contributing let me know and also check out the project Github page:

https://github.com/initialcommit-com/git-sim

Most devs overlook an excellent resource for improving their coding and dev skills - learning from early versions of open source codebases.

Reading other peoples' code and understanding it can be incredibly useful in various contexts.

In the spirit of this, I tried my hand at understanding how Git's code works. It turns out that Git's original version - i.e. Git's initial commit - is written in the C programming language and consists ONLY of ~1,000 lines of code.

I found it so interesting and learned so much - and want to encourage other devs to do the same.

Jumping into a new codebase can be intimidating, so I put together a guidebook to help devs learn how Git's original code actually works - the Decoding Git Guidebook for Developers.