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Re:The Git source code audit, viewed as a Rust programmer by johnny22 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:19PM (#34506693)
that would fit how git itself evolved. A fair amount of code was in perl and stayed that way for awhile before being written in C.
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Re:The Git source code audit, viewed as a Rust programmer by cerved on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:56PM (#34507291)
many of the porcelain commands are or used to be in perl/bash
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Re:The Git source code audit, viewed as a Rust programmer by nusaru on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:51PM (#34509216)
A question that comes to mind: should all Perl scripts be rewritten in C before introducing Rust into the code base? Practically speaking, this probably might never happen, but perhaps the trade-off in technical debt is worth it.
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