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I see a future in jj

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295 points steveklabnik | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 17:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.528s | source
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joshstrange ◴[22 Oct 25 17:54 UTC] No.45672736[source]▶
I guess I see what the author was trying to convey talking about Rust/Go at the start but I'll admit it confused the hell out of me when we got to Jj (horrible name IMHO but whatever).

Jj is a VCS, it was not at all clear (to me) until I got further and I was very confused as to why we were talking so much about source control (I thought Jj was a language since the article started by talking about Rust/Go).

Apparently Jj can work on/with git repos making it easier to adopt incrementally which is neat and the main point of this post is that the author is leaving Oxide to go work for a new company trying to to create the GitHub of Jj (my understanding at least).

I hope this helps someone else who might be confused like I was.

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1. steveklabnik ◴[22 Oct 25 18:09 UTC] No.45672955[source]▶
Thank you for the feedback! I talk about it so much I feel like regular readers of my blog will know this stuff already, but I also don't want to leave out important context for others.

I tried to help fix this in https://github.com/steveklabnik/steveklabnik.com/pull/125/fi..., thanks again!

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2. simultsop ◴[22 Oct 25 19:55 UTC] No.45674316[source]▶
If you're asked why Rust. I believe you are always free to choose.