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  • Saying “it’s a graph of commits” makes no sense to a layperson.

    Sure, but git is aimed at programmers. Who should have learned graph theory in university. It was past of the very first course I had as an undergraduate many years ago.

    Git is definitely hard though for almost all the reasons in the article, perhaps other reasons too. But not understanding what a DAG is shouldn’t be one of them, for the intended target audience.


  • Vorpal@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.devLet's talk about Zig
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    1 year ago

    I really don’t see what niche it is trying to fill that isn’t already occupied.

    Rust is as successful as it is because it found a previously unoccupied niche: safe systems programming without garbage collector and with high level abstractions that (mostly) optimise away.

    I don’t think “better C” is a big enough niche to be of interest to enough people for it to gain a critical mass. I certainly have very little interest in it myself.