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Regardless, what's the point?

• tonymet 4mo ago
  maybe it's an academic project. proof they could reimplement something useful & complex?
• sharkjacobs 4mo ago
  > One of the main things I would like to be able to use it for is to be able to bundle complex push/fetch functionality into GitButler and other standalone Git tools needing network functionality (such as Jujutsu). > Having parts of Git as discrete, embeddable slices of library also enables things like building custom Git servers or client functionality in Rust. > The full build of all Git functionality in Rust is currently around 27M, but since a large part of it is a library, it could clearly be easily split up into domains of functionality - subcrates that do specific things. Perhaps you could simply use the subset you need.
• insanitybit 4mo ago
  The article starts out with paragraphs about the history and motivation. > it made me wonder about the feasibility of using that same approach to accomplish something I've been dreaming about for 15 years now, > which means that it's difficult to use it in long running processes without fork/exec overhead for everything. > What if we used the same basic idea that Anthropic used on their from-scratch C compiler? Start a brand new implementation, design it as a Rust library, then throw a swarm of agents at the problem