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> Git will be replaced by something that uses intuitive metaphors like "save", "load", "undo", "go back to old version", "update my work with work from colleague", "update the official state with my work" and others.

If that were actually the case, then the dominant programming language today would be COBOL, rather than anything we have now.

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Given how much COBOL is still in production, I suppose it depends entirely on your definition of "dominant" ?

Given that if you are starting a new project now, you'd almost never even consider using Cobol, that would be a very weird definition of 'dominant'..

To me, dominant is defined by lines of code currently in production.

The difference between my example vs. what you defined, is that hype and/or popularity determine what people use for _new_ projects. But that doesn't really assess how dominant a language has been in the past (or even in production currently).

Java is another dominant language that you might not use for a new project. Same with C.

> Java is another dominant language that you might not use for a new project. Same with C

I would very much consider using Java for a new project, same with C(1) if the project is in "real time" (I think that C++ hides too much things under the rug which can create latency issue).

1: Zig isn't ready yet to be a replacement

> To me, dominant is defined by lines of code currently in production.

That definition biases towards verbose languages with lots of headers and boilerplate code (e.g. C++, Java)

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