Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:31:00 -0400
Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:

> Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson%gmail.com@localhost> 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.