▲ 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
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Imagine if their VCS operations were 10s of times less efficient 😉 Anti Commercial-AI license permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Most of the VCS ops in Hg are actually written in C. GitHub is mostly written in Ruby, so that's not really a performance win. Like I said, we're stuck with Git's UX, but we were never stuck with Hg's performance. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Most of the VCS ops in Hg are actually written in C. GitHub is mostly written in Ruby, so that's not really a performance win. Like I said, we're stuck with Git's UX, but we were never stuck with Hg's performance. permalink fedilink source parent