Linus' answer is based on a comparison between monotone, implemented in C++, and git, implemented in C. Monotone uses boost, standard C++ practices, and it's m

Linus' answer is based on a comparison between monotone, implemented in C++, and git, implemented in C. Monotone uses boost, standard C++ practices, and it's much slower and more bloated than git. The idea is that, even if git could be written in C++, with similar performance compared to the C version, C++ programmers would invariably end with something closer to monotone than git.