▲ 461 ▼ Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years (www.zdnet.com) submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev 70 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Mercurial is written in Python, Git in C. Given the number of git instances, had it been implemented in Python, more CPU cycles / electricity would have been used. Blah blah Mercurial is responsible for global warming. (I’m being sarcastic by the way - I love Mercurial). permalink fedilink source parent