On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:31:00 -0400 Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote:
> Jan Danielsson <jan.m.daniels...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On 2020-06-19 13:45, Matthias Petermann wrote: > >> [---] Or maybe one day a BSD-licensed Mercurial > >> "light" as a re-implementation in Golang will exist. > > > > There's work being done on oxidizing parts of Mercurial. As far > > as I have gathered, the plan is to keep the python implementations > > as well, but if the user chooses to they can build certain parts in > > Rust to get a less resource demanding implementation. > > (I know you are the messenger here so not directed at you.) > > The idea of having to build rust to get a "less resource demanding > implementation" would be great comedy if it weren't such a serious > problem. The Mercurial developers have an opinion that it is very difficult to develop and maintain reliable software in C. So the search goes on for the silver bullet - Python, Rust, Go, etc.
