Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] send-email: various optimizations to speed up by >2x

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 28, 2021, 15:12 UTC
Message-ID: <60b108608f0da_4b1112080@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <YKYdeom6SgAHqojm@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

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> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:18:57AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> > A re-roll of [1], the work I based v1 on top of has landed in master,
> > so this has been rebased on master.
> > 
> > The changes here are minor, just a typo fix / commit message
> > clarification, moving "require" closer to where it's used, and finally
> > a new 10/10 patch to s/cwd/getcwd/g.
> 
> I like all of this, except for the change in the interface of
> Git::config_regexp(). You mention that it's new-ish, and probably not in
> wide use. And I agree that's probably true. But it feels like violating
> a principle of not breaking APIs, and we should stick to that principle
> and not bend it for "well, it's not that old an API".

APIs are broken all the time. That's why they have versions.

Anyway, I find it odd that the git project cares about an API promise of an outdated language steadily in decline (it's peak was in 2004 [1]), and yet it does not provide an API of its own, like virtually all important software.

Shouldn't we care more about a C API than a Perl API?

(a non-existent API is orders of magnitude worse than an API that broke once)

[1] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/perl/

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Felipe Contreras