Comment Comment by IshKebab > Writing your tooling in python is valid while starting out and prototyping.This fallacy again. Tell me, when did Mercurial decide "ok the prototype is done, we'll rewrite it in a proper language"?They didn't, of course. Because nobody ever does. Your "prototype" gradually becomes a 100k line product that you can't afford to rewrite.(I guess you can YOLO it with AI these days but that wasn't an option for Mercurial.)> Starting with C was great for performance of Git, but damn if it's not a terrible UX these daysGit's terrible UX doesn't have anything to do with C. C doesn't make you always pick a different flag for "delete". parent IshKebab 5 months ago
This fallacy again. Tell me, when did Mercurial decide "ok the prototype is done, we'll rewrite it in a proper language"?
They didn't, of course. Because nobody ever does. Your "prototype" gradually becomes a 100k line product that you can't afford to rewrite.
(I guess you can YOLO it with AI these days but that wasn't an option for Mercurial.)
> Starting with C was great for performance of Git, but damn if it's not a terrible UX these days
Git's terrible UX doesn't have anything to do with C. C doesn't make you always pick a different flag for "delete".