[jmercouris]

After reading the article, the technical merits of `jj` are completely unclear.

[steveklabnik]

Yes, that was not the goal of the post. There's some comments about this in this thread though, here's the first one of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45673808

[svat]

That URL https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=steveklabnik is a link to your user profile.

[steveklabnik]

Whoops, managed to fix it. Thank you!

[archargelod]

The article can be summarized to essentially: I like Rust. jj is written in Rust. Some Rust person loves jj. jj is used at Google.

Who upvotes this?

[steveklabnik]

I can’t speak to people’s motivations, but I have been a very active member on this forum for a long time, and I was on the Rust team for about a decade, beginning before 1.0.

So the article is more like “Here’s why I started using Rust. If you thought I made a good choice then, well, I’m making a similar choice in case you want to join me.” Seems people find that compelling.

Just like Rust’s success was not inevitable, neither is jj’s. But I think it might work out.

You could also consider this a disclosure of sorts, I post a lot on this forum about jj (and Rust), and so knowing that I now have a financial incentive is important context to some people.