Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd:
1. Pure C as opposed to C++. No idea why. Please don't talk about
portability, it's BS.
It is also a relatively simple language that
a large number of open source programmers know. This makes it easy
for them to get involved in the project.
This is important. Git contains code from more than 300 people. I'm
guessing you could cut that number by 2/3 if it had been written in C++.
Git is cheating a bit though. Its primary audience was (and is) the
various integrators working on the Linux kernel, all of whom are fairly
competent C programmers.
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