# Envy/Developer

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Envy/Developer and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Intuitive, practical Smalltalk version control that was adopted in real workflows and works locally only. One critic says it had a problem common to other Smalltalk tools.

## Why people recommend it

- Intuitive to users (1 comments): "The only one that was truly intuitive to me was Envy/Developer." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789813))
- Practical, adopted in real workflows (1 comments): "It's a practical workflow that was actually adopted." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849035))
- Local-only, like Obsidian without plugins (1 comments): "Obsidian without the plugins, local only" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674885))

## What people warn about

- Shares a problem common to Smalltalk tools (1 comments): "ENVY suffered of a problem that many other Smalltalk technologies suffered" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070673))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Git](https://hackerapproved.com/p/git.md): 814 recommend
- [Jujutsu (jj)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jujutsu.md): 335 recommend
- [Mercurial](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mercurial.md): 121 recommend
- [jj (Jujutsu)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jj.md): 115 recommend
- [Fossil](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fossil.md): 106 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Envy/Developer", https://hackerapproved.com/p/envy/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).