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Re:Magit – A Git Porcelain inside Emacs by pmoriarty on Friday September 11, 2020 @11:02AM (#24443564)
While I absolutely adore Magit, I wonder why it doesn't just use hydra, a well established package to which Transient is very very similar.[1]

Why don't these two brilliant programmers team up and make one package twice as good, instead of working on two separate packages and mostly duplicating effort?

[1] - https://magit.vc/manual/transient/Comparison-With-Other-Pack...

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Re:Magit – A Git Porcelain inside Emacs by tarsius on Saturday September 19, 2020 @11:39AM (#24528162)
Internally they are actually quite different. Hydra is much simpler, which has its benefits. Transient is much more flexible, which it has to pay for with complexity. There's value in having both options.
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