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Remember when XML had "won" too? Then JSON came around...

Remember how Windows "won" ?

I won't ever use Github now (how are you going to export all those non-git features like tickets when github is not desirable anymore, hmm?), and neither should you if you care even a tiny bit about open source software !



> Remember when XML had "won" too? Then JSON came around...

JSON wasn't a very well-thought idea, we tried to "fix" it with yaml (which turned out to be even worse), compare it with EDN (which is far better, but sadly nobody outside of Clojure community uses much)

> Remember how Windows "won"

Windows still dominates desktop OS market and we're still waiting for "Year of Linux on the desktop". Every year some people claim it to be "this is it", but in reality, it is still far from becoming reality. With WSL now even long-time Linux users are tempted to go back to Windows. And honestly I personally don't like that.

My point is - "worse is always better" *

As I said: either you like it or not - we're stuck with Git and now with Github too.

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better


Windows also pretty much "lost" on servers...




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