Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
- Date
- Sep 7, 2007, 04:30 UTC
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On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Paul Wankadia wrote:
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> Wincent Colaiuta <win <at> wincent.com> writes: > > > > I just wanted to get a sense of how many people share this "Git should > > > be in pure C" doctrine. > > > > Count me as one of them. Git is all about speed, and C is the best > > choice for speed, especially in context of Git's workload. > > I concur, but I also feel that D, Clean and OCaml are viable alternatives.
I happen to have zero experience with any of those, so if Git development was done with one of them, you'd have to count me out.
C is simply the lingua franca when it comes to programming, and it happens to be the fastest amongst portable languages too.
Nicolas