On 2024-08-08 17:38, rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:59 AM, Dragan Simic wrote:
On 2024-08-08 13:51, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
Cgit maintainer here...
On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 11:21:25AM -0700, Josh Steadmon wrote:
* bikeshedding on the name (yes, really). There is an active,
unrelated
CGit project [4] that we only recently became aware of. We
originally
took the name "cgit" because at $DAYJOB we sometimes refer to
git.git
as "cgit" to distinguish it from jgit [5].
Indeed, please find something else. Cgit is a real project, used by
many, such as git.kernel.org, and it'll turn into a real hassle for
both of us if there's ambiguity and confusion.
Totally agreed, naming it cgit-rs makes pretty much no sense.
What about libgit-rs? Or even libgit3, where the rustness of it is
simply an implementation detail, so the name won't feel dated 15
years
from now when everything is written in Rust anyway and -rs is so
2020s?
Well, there are still very active commercial projects written in COBOL
or Clipper, for
example, so I wouldn't go as far as _everything_ being written in Rust
at some point.
There are hundreds of millions of lines of code in the NonStop (TAL,
COBOL, C, Java,
in that order) community that is actively maintained to this day, with
no Rust
involvement (not for lack of trying to get Rust ported). Without these
projects, most
of your credit and debit cards would probably not work. 😉 Many of
these repositories
are more than 500Mb, with a couple I have seen exceeding 2Gb (just for
source code).
Those are good examples. Also, I believe that the entire financial
system of
a country from South America runs on software written in Clipper, and
they keep
producing modern Clipper compilers that run on Windows. Let me remind
you that
Cliper was used back in the days of DOS and 5.25-inch floppies. :)
