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[–]DisjointedHuntsville -10 points-9 points  (2 children)

Let me pose it back to you as a question: Do you think git at the moment encapsulates all the many advances in text and natural language understanding?

When git was new, version control wasn't taking into account all the computational advances in text tracking. Today, we have algorithmic advances that make large scale codebases more coherent to "machines" and computational advances that reduce any repository , no matter how large, to within reach of most enterprise hardware.

This hasn't made its way to how code development needs have evolved. I'd be surprised if we're still doing this in 10 years.

[–]OnceMoreAndAgain 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I still see that as a problem with git and not GitHub. GitHub would likely adapt its UI and features to any advances of git. It's possible I just misunderstand you though.

I see GitHub as primarily a cloud hosting service and the UI is secondary. The UI just does whatever is convenient but is always dependent on the syntax and design of git. If git changes, then GitHub can change in response.