[rtpg]

Maybe? But this is an argument you can make about most technology adoption (silly recent example: USB-C adoption obviously buffetted by Apple showing up and saying "it's all this now" and having a bunch of people willing to swap everything out for it)

[pjmlp]

The same Apple that was forced by EU regulators to actually adopt it across their devices?

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Yup. That doesn’t change the effect, though.

That kind of thing has happened before. When HP adopted IEE-488, it became the standard test equipment interface for a couple of decades.

USBC has arrived.

[pjmlp]

Yes it does, otherwise people in Europe would still not use USB C on their Apple gear for the most part.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Agreed.

The thing about an SCM, though, is that it needs to be rock-solid reliable and trustworthy. No "YOLO, Bro!" or "Move Fast and Break Things."

Git is that. I believe that this is exactly because of who wrote it.

Torvalds has plenty of detractors (and they aren't necessarily wrong), but he is one hell of a C programmer.

I'd trust stuff he wrote, over about 95% of what modern devs, do, these days.