[jmercouris]

After reading the article, the technical merits of `jj` are completely unclear.

[steveklabnik]

Yes, that was not the goal of the post. There's some comments about this in this thread though, here's the first one of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45673808

[svat]

That URL https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=steveklabnik is a link to your user profile.

[archargelod]

The article can be summarized to essentially: I like Rust. jj is written in Rust. Some Rust person loves jj. jj is used at Google.

Who upvotes this?

[steveklabnik]

I can’t speak to people’s motivations, but I have been a very active member on this forum for a long time, and I was on the Rust team for about a decade, beginning before 1.0.

So the article is more like “Here’s why I started using Rust. If you thought I made a good choice then, well, I’m making a similar choice in case you want to join me.” Seems people find that compelling.

Just like Rust’s success was not inevitable, neither is jj’s. But I think it might work out.

You could also consider this a disclosure of sorts, I post a lot on this forum about jj (and Rust), and so knowing that I now have a financial incentive is important context to some people.

[steveklabnik]

That line wasn’t even in the original post. It is not nearly the only technical advantage. The point of the post is just not about that topic, so that content is not in the post.