Re: [DISCUSS] Introducing Rust into the Git project

From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date: Jan 11, 2024, 05:33 UTC
Message-ID: <14951ce7e4ec61712e5455b836dd625c@manjaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BFOmwV-xBtjvtenb6RFz9wx2VWVpTeho0k=D8wsCCVwqQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2024-01-11 01:12, Elijah Newren wrote:

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> Another alternative (as discussed at Git Merge when we were last
> talking about Rust[8]), is requiring all Rust code to be optional for
> now.  If we choose to go that route, I think that means that (a) for
> existing components, we have both a Rust and a C implementation
> available, and (b) for new components (e.g. new top-level commands
> like git-replay), they can be Rust-only and those compiling without
> Rust just don't get them.

To me, this sounds like a horrible option, which is exactly what I earlier referred to as introducing fragmentation.