Re: Are C++ contributions welcome?
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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- Jun 20, 2008, 14:16 UTC
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Jose Maria Gomez Vergara <josemaria@jmgv.org> writes:
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> I think Git is a really good project and I would like to contribute to it. > I have been having a look to the source and I have realized on that all > code is C (well and Perl for some scripts and so..). I know that C++ code > was not welcome sometime ago, but I don't know if this have changed. > > I don't feel comfortable programing in C and I prefer C++ only because I > have more experience using this one. May I contribute to this project in > that language?.
I don't think that C++ would get accepted because it would introduce another dependency; if not runtime dependency (libstdc++), then build requirement (C++ compiler).
And I think it doesn't bring much: git is not some GUI application where OOP works best; it is 'close to the metal' (performance), where I think C works best.
-- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git