> I see people on here complaining about cargo-culting from the cool kids (k8s, spotify's team structures, etc., ect.), but I see git as exactly the same.
I think this explains a lot of the initial popularity of git and github. Wanting to be like the cool kids, and git knowledge being seen as somehow "elite" back then.
But given that initial popularity, it seems likely to me that network effects mostly explain its growth in usage from there. Convergence on a single revision control tool/site/representation/api/etc is probably inevitable, in the same way that there is basically a single social network (ie Facebook).
I think this explains a lot of the initial popularity of git and github. Wanting to be like the cool kids, and git knowledge being seen as somehow "elite" back then.
But given that initial popularity, it seems likely to me that network effects mostly explain its growth in usage from there. Convergence on a single revision control tool/site/representation/api/etc is probably inevitable, in the same way that there is basically a single social network (ie Facebook).