Comment by kccqzy
3 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.
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.