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Dwarf Fortress Uses Version Control Now? Tarn Adams' Quotes and Solo Dev Lessons
Dwarf Fortress was famous for not using version control, and now it does. We follow Tarn Adams' 2013, 2016 and 2023 comments to see what changed.
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3 postsDwarf Fortress was famous for not using version control, and now it does. We follow Tarn Adams' 2013, 2016 and 2023 comments to see what changed.
Daily merges at Anthropic went from 2,500 to over 30,000 in five months, so the company built its own version control system, Scion, instead of sticking with Git. Here are the design principles, the limits, and what ordinary teams can take from it.
Python 3.15 arrived on October 9, 2026, and 3.10 has reached end of life. Here are the key changes, including lazy import, frozendict and the Tachyon profiler, plus a checklist for raising your minimum version to 3.11.