Your timeline is straight up fucked. In short, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Imagine you are driving the bed
actually quite enjoyable, ty!
Enough to necessitate this meme.
While I respect your choice to make things more ‘beautiful’ in your editor, I do not think we should ever do this by default.
It might seem nice visually, but suddenly we are not seeing things exactly as the compiler does. And as someone who has spent a lot of time helping folks debug their code, I feel quite strongly that this is just further obfuscating an already challenging field - for superficial gains.
I actually wasn’t being negative, but carry on.
I understand approximately half of what you wrote, but I see quite a few people upvoted you. Is this what dementia is like?
No idea what held in is, but I live in vim, and … no ligatures, thanks. Same with italics. Ligatures with fixed-width fonts make no sense. I especially hate the combined arrow symbols: why draw attention to something so unimportant?
I appreciate them in print, but do not ever want to see them in my terminal.
You’re thinking in terms of a single dev using revision control, but the person you responded to was referring to the higher level aspects of software development that git facilitates. In other words, you’ve completely missed the point.
As for the Linux kernel, if it hadn’t come along, we’d likely be living in FreeBSD-dominated world. Or, perhaps Hurd would’ve received more attention.
Torvalds didn’t create git because he was passionate about version control systems, he created it because the existing solutions were not adequate.
Git is a distributed version control system (DVCS) that facilitated a fundamental shift in how people collaborate on software projects in general. So, comparing it to SVN and downplaying the significance of Git suggests you’ve kind of missed the point.
Edit: with you on the other thing though - fuck Windows.
You probably need to learn a bit more about VCS fundamentals if you think Subversion would’ve been fine.
I’d love to read a book about the organizational struggles they’ve faced over the years, but I guess that would just be political history… :(
I think I might’ve had a hard time not judging him for sharing that in an interview. Good on you for not.
Vegan and non vegans are are at the opposite extremes. One only eats meat, the other never eats meat.
Wow, very interesting! I really admire the way you make sense.
Thank you for sharing your opinion and your brilliant advice on how to be constructive. I especially enjoyed the part where you said I shouted my comment with anger—that was really good!
Let’s flip it, then: what about this post is useful?
This is fucking useless. Please stop.
From the bottom of my tortured soul: fuck Windows.
I’m afraid this one is already taken, friend.