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Every language has its niche (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 years ago (4 children)

One of the most known programming tool is built on Ruby, Github.

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[–] MilderRichter@feddit.de 38 points 2 years ago

GitLab also uses Ruby on Rails

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And it's a pile of shit.

git is great. GitHub blows chunks. The only reason it's still big is that it sucks less than any other single platform.

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[–] otl@hachyderm.io 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

@SpaceNoodle I’ll always be sad how GitHub helped popularise centralised workflows. Such an amazing opportunity for a big cultural shift, but it didn’t go anyway as far as it could have.

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[–] technom@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Git owes a lot of its popularity to github. Without it, there's a good chance that mercurial would have taken over. In addition, the centralized workflow was what made both git and github popular. It simplified git usage enough to let a lot of novices get started.

I'm in no way a fan of centralization that github represents. But I think a decentralized workflow using git was a lost opportunity. People complain a lot about the git-email workflow. But I see no reason why it couldn't have become as easy as using github if the effort spent on github was spent on git-email tools and user experience.

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