x86 architecture, HTTP, Microsoft Windows, Adobe Flash, Water based urinals, internal combustion engine based cars, the modern English language, mobile phones.
All of these disappear into the background once you get used to them - until they get replaced by something better or worse (to the point that you can't find the previous one) - and then they are visible again, either with an appreciative or nostalgic look, but only for a short while.
Case in point for improvement - almost all pre-iphone phones are clunky (by today's standards), and almost all post-iphone touch screen phones are copies of the iphone. The clunky phones were just as clunky in 2005, but until the world was aware of the alternative, it wasn't obvious _how_ clunky and style free they are.
Case in point for degradation - my 1280x1024 17" 4:3 matte LCD monitor that I got in 2005 still looks brilliant and useful on my desk - and I have a working 2001 17" CRT monitor that can do 1600x1200 without blurring or breaking a sweat. Both were not the cheapest available at the time I bought them, but were far from high end. I was recently looking for a replacement and can't find a freaking 4:3 LCD monitor; and all the 16:9 ones are glossy, 17" don't go above ~800 horizontal lines. Where's the style in that?
And zed - since you like programming languages like Python and Lua (which both have a very well defined style) - you might like K (commercial version at kx.com ; open at https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona ) it's the ultimate stylish language. (And you can't look at software engineering seriously again after you've mastered it - everything looks so convoluted and unneeded. Think R on steroids, to the point that plain R seems as verbose as Ada)
I guess everyone is using a lot of crap then, and they're all completely wrong and you're right.
This is possible, of course, but instead of snarky dismissals you could perhaps say why you think what you do. I respect you, but also happen to think git kicks ass, a few minor warts notwithstanding. Your dismissive appraisal as "crap" is basically worthless.
Zed, have you contemplated that git may be written in good old Unix paradigm, as a set of multilayer tools where each does smallest possible subset of things, and they are interconnected with scripts.
As in ESR's "TAoUP".
Now, you may dislike this paradigm, but it's hardly "bunch of obscene hacks with no sense of style".
[edit] Having said that, thanks for saving the infrastructure for you projects, that was cool move of you.
