Popular open-source library SDL moving development to GitHub despite ‘calamitous design choices’ in git

Source: The Register

Article note: That looks about right. Git is obscenely over-complicated and ill-suited to the vast majority of things it is used for, and github's EEE workflow has made it even weirder -- but it's also by far the dominant species, and if you pretend the 10% of its surface area that is not a foot-cannon is the whole thing and entirely hide how it actually works, you can get network effects while still pretending to be using an appropriate tool. More generally, the tooling to do _anything_ has become so horrifically complicated and opaque that everyone is scurrying back mainframes^H^H the cloud, and that itself is a problem.

'I don't have the energy to be a server admin for something that's held together with scotch tape and prayers'

The Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) project is moving development to GitHub today despite what a core developer calls "calamitous design choices" in git, for the sake of familiarity and wide tool support.…

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