From: Marco Costalba Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:25:27 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] git-gui USer's Survey 2007 (was: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20071130175018.GB30048@efreet.light.src> On Nov 30, 2007 6:50 PM, Jan Hudec wrote: > > Nevertheless, I actually think git-gui is quite well in Tcl/Tk and rewriting > it in python nor any other language would probably help it in any way. > A little provocation: I've never seen in open source a discussion on what language to use for an application and then the development of the application from scratch. What I see daily instead is the effort of one (or a very little number of people) to develop something in the language he choose and then , _after_ some code has been produced, the effort embraced by other people that join the project. Some near examples? gitk, gitweb, stgit, git itself especially for shell parts (why shell should be a better prototyping language then other prototyping languages? portability? easy to learn? performance? library support? syntax? probably no one of the above in general terms). I would say this thread, although very interesting from a learning point of view, it's a a little bit academic. Marco