Such efforts may not 'succeed' on the whole. However there is great benefit to this young language when a popular utility can be implemented to highlight the w

Such efforts may not 'succeed' on the whole. However there is great benefit to this young language when a popular utility can be implemented to highlight the weakness of a particular runtime implementation, or even the underlying language. Git/Hg clients touch network io, file io, and rudimentary hashing in the normal execution path. So it makes for a good subject.