On Sat, Nov 21, 2015, at 03:58 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: > I think you're confusing understanding how a system works underneath > with understanding how to use it. GitHub is a testament to the massive > number of people who use git. A very small handful of those people > really truly grok how git works under the hood.
I'm not confusing those things, but I think it's important that developers can understand what's going on as well as how to use the tools. This is a complex topic - clearly there's a lot of stuff we use every day without really understanding - but broadly I'm not comfortable with saying "don't worry about how this works, just use it". People use git, but they're not exactly happy about its incomprehensible nature (https://xkcd.com/1597/ ;-). One of my aims with Batis was precisely to keep it easy to understand, not just easy to use. Thomas _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
