Learning new things is hard

I've been hearing more and more things about jujutsu and want to try it out. It is so hard to learn new things that replace something I've been using almost every day for over 10 years though. The muscle memory is so ingrained and my mental model of what version control even is is so rigid, it's hard to wrap my head around the idea that it could be anything other than git's. My main motivation is that I've "heard" it's better for a) working with stacked branches and b) working on multiple worktrees (called workspaces) at once. These are both things I do way more now because of all the agent-driven-development stuff I'm learning than I ever did before and I feel like I am spending a ridiculous amount of time fighting git. But learning new things is so hard. Wish me luck.

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Kira Howe is a software engineer writing about Clojure, data, and the craft of building small, durable software.

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