Git's Killer Feature (why it's better than Mercurial)

Re:Git's Killer Feature (why it's better than Mercurial) by Xichekolas on Monday March 10, 2008 @10:36AM (#133142)

Generally you would hope a project is written in whatever the author(s) excel(s) at. I think that Linus and Co have clearly demonstrated they have a lot of experience doing C correctly, so you should have some faith that they know what they are doing.

They might not have similar aptitude with Ocaml or Python. Given enough time, all bugs are shallow, and Git is becoming popular enough that this becomes true. After all, Python itself was also written in C, so it is theoretically at risk to the same things.

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Re:Git's Killer Feature (why it's better than Mercurial) by Xichekolas on Monday March 10, 2008 @03:10PM (#133332)

(I obviously meant "Given enough eyes, ..." above. Not sure what my brain is doing today, but translating thoughts to keystrokes is definitely not working correctly.)

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Re:Git's Killer Feature (why it's better than Mercurial) by obdurak on Monday March 10, 2008 @10:42AM (#133146)

They certainly are expert C coders and a VCS can benefit from direct-to-the metal code. Let's hope that lower-quality C won't creep in.

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