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I don’t think the Git maintainers will consider adding Go as a dependency and having commands in a new language. Or at least, it would require first a massive
by williamdclt 1y ago
I don’t think the Git maintainers will consider adding Go as a dependency and having commands in a new language.
Or at least, it would require first a massive effort to align the maintainers on the idea of a new language, like Rust in the Linux kernel
- xn 1y agoI updated my calendar to revisit in 2045.
- lucasoshiro 1y ago> I don’t think the Git maintainers will consider adding Go as a dependency Just re-write in C
- williamdclt 1y agoThis "just" carries a lot of weight. And that's probably not enough: for example likely you'd need to reuse whatever Git uses to generates patch formats. It's not necessarily _hard_, but it's not "just" a language translation.
- derintegrative 1y ago"Just"
- xn 1y agoMaybe someone will create modernperl, à la modernc, to automatically port go to perl.
- imiric 1y agoOr just improve the Perl version? There's no reason this needs to be written in Go.