I should give Malick another shot. I love film, but only first tried him when I was much younger (Thin Red Line) and don’t think I really got it.

Never tried Tree of Life or any of his more recent stuff.

Got any recommendations in the first 2-3 of his you’d suggest?

I don’t think this is a fair characterization. The reason git is confusing is that its underlying model doesn’t resemble our intuitive conceptual model of how it ought to work.

This was classic Torvalds — zero hand holding. But he gets away with it because the way git works is brilliantly appropriate for what it’s intended to do (if you just ignore the part where, you know, mere mortal humans need to use it sometimes). I ended up writing my masters thesis a decade ago about the version control wars, and I (somewhat grudgingly) came away in awe at Torvalds’ technical and conceptual clarity on this.

I chuckled at the title - "So You Think You Know Git" - no, one does not think one knows git :-)

> To be honest, I think she might be biased here given that she maintains a competing package.

I hope that you take time to reconsider this view.

We're not talking about competition in the same sense as in a capitalist system, between two companies.

Prior to asyncio, Twisted maintained the only viable flow control for serious asynchrony in python. Put another way, python had no standard flow control for serious asynchronous abstractions in the standard language (and standard library) before asyncio (and `await/async def`, etc) landed.

Nobody is saying that the syntactical changes to python belong in a separate package on PyPI (cue Gary Bernhardt's Pretzel Colon). These things are fine.

But `asyncio.Future`? Yeah, I see a very reasonable argument for that stuff (ie, the asyncio namespace) being in a separate package.

But OK - looking again at the "competing package" narrative: now that these things have landed, Twisted has done an amazing job of using them alongside all the other tooling that Twisted also provides, most notably its test infrastructure.

Amber doesn't stand to personally benefit from asyncio failing. To the contrary, having the flow control taken care of so that Twisted doesn't have to be its sole brainparent gives her much less free work to feel obligated to do.