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I think it'd be really hard to replace git. Even if your notgit had 2x git's usability and 2x performance, there's a learning curve to any VCS tool. Incentivising new users would be tricky. GitHub is also so widely used that adoption of anything else is hard.

Does usability research suffer from historical bias? I've seen papers suggest that old-fashioned buttons with a bezel are better than the modern flat style. That seems reasonable, but I wonder if the effect would be smaller if early GUIs were flat.

Darklang is exploring an IDE experience where you have values you can inspect as you write code. It does this by tracing recent requests and autorunning pure code. It's neat! Seeing concrete values is a definite usability win. https://medium.com/darklang/building-an-office-sign-in-in-dark-c2d980560695