Re: [9front] removing python

["Daniel C." <bigatojj@gmail.com>]

Em 14/06/2021 13:34, ori@eigenstate.org escreveu:
> It was on the order of a million lines of
> code. The python version was from 2007,
> and the hg version was from 2009.
> [...]
> Contrast: Our implementation of git is 8784
> lines of code (at the moment), and doesn't
> have any external dependencies that we need
> to fight.
> 

Wow, the contrast is astonishing, congratulations and thank you for your 
work. That sounds like a major milestone.

The size of the git implementation seems so small (maybe misleadingly 
so?) that it makes me curious, because it's been a while since I first 
heard that you were working on git9. Why did it took so long, was it 
merely because you didn't have much free time? Or was it hard to 
understand git? Sometimes when migrating something, I see that I spend 
more time understanding the old system than writing the new one. Was 
that the case? What was the harder aspects in this implementation? 
Because a superficial look would suggest that with the new 
implementation being so short, it should not have taken so long. I'm 
sure it would be naive to think this way. Knowing that often making 
something simple and clear takes a lot more effort than producing 
something complicated, I would be grateful for any insight you want to 
share on the history behind the scenes for this transition. Thanks!