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Comment by Marsymars

3 days ago

I feel like I’ve got an open mind towards processes and tools; the problem with a company using anything other than Git at this point is that unless they have a good explanation for it, it’s not going to be an indicator that the company compared the relative merits of VCS systems and chose something other than Git - it’s going to be an indicator that the company doesn’t have the bandwidth or political will to modernize legacy processes.

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kccqzy  2 days ago

Yeah but as a new hire, one doesn't yet know whether there is a good explanation for using a non-git tool. It takes time to figure that out.

A legacy tool might be bad, or it might be very good but just unpopular. A company that devotes political will to modernize for the sake of modernizing is the kind of craziness we get in the JS ecosystem.

  • Marsymars  1 day ago

    I mean if I'm a potential new hire, I'm just going to ask why they're not using Git, and give them the opportunity to give me a good explanation before I start there.

    I'm with you on the JS ecosystem - I work on crufty .NET desktop apps - but you couldn't pay me to work on my crufty .NET apps using SVN.