I'm following this Jujutsu project, I'm genuinely curious to see what it can bring to the SVC scene.
I speak specifically of the UI. Obviously the underlying system works. Yet it's totally within reason that the UI has wasted trillions of money and many person years in lost productivity.
Napkin math. It's easy to waste 30 minutes figuring out what the heck is going on after a command didn't work, or explaining what a detached head is to a newbie, or any number of completely avoidable issues were the UI better.
Consider the 26.9 million developers in North America[1]. How does one estimate the average salary across NA? Some in SV make 3x that. Elsewhere, it's conceivable that people make considerably less. Let's just say 100k. That's 100,000÷52÷40=48/hr or 24 per half hour. Anyone with git, I think it's safe to say, has had at least one stupid issue that took 30 minutes because of the UI. That's 26.9×24=645,600,000 monies.
In my experience and what I've seen of anyone who'a used git, 30 minutes is a gross underestimate. And people use git outside of NA. It's easily trillions in waste.
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