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Sounds like it aims to be a (much) faster darcs. But between the name and the fact that they are trying to maintain two separate codebases (OCaml and Scala) tha
by skywhopper 11y ago
Sounds like it aims to be a (much) faster darcs. But between the name and the fact that they are trying to maintain two separate codebases (OCaml and Scala) that both do the same thing, I'm not super optimistic about its prospects.
- gecko 11y agoThat should make you more optimistic! They want to make sure that the data format is well-specified from the very beginning, ensuring that there can be a third-party ecosystem that doesn't have the issue Git has right now where the only real definitive definition of Git's data formats is Git, yet people expect libgit2, JGit, etc. to work.
- placeybordeaux 11y agoIf you are worried about two languages... >28 October 2015: Discovered Rust, a functional language that is not only type-safe and fast, but also has threads and binds easily to C on Linux and Windows. Looks like a good target.