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Re:“Rewrite It in Rust” Considered Harmful? [pdf] by spoiler on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:25PM (#36063430)
> Bash looks like didn't has any commit this year yet

Does anyone know why this is? Is it because doing anything would cause POSIX divergence? Nobody wants to (because it's an "ugh experience")? It's considered effectively complete?

Genuinely curious.

I don't actually use Bash for my personal shell, thought. I do write bash scripts semi-regularly though.

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Re:“Rewrite It in Rust” Considered Harmful? [pdf] by knome on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:41PM (#36063611)
All of the commits are from Chet Ramey, who the wiki says took over maintenance on bash just shy of 30 years ago.

It looks like its busy in the devel branch.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/log/?h=devel

The last commit from anyone else was Jari Aalto in 2009? Wow.

If he's committing on behalf of anyone else, it isn't mentioned in git.

The AUTHORS file is mostly Chet Ramey with occasional input from other FSF members.

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