Re: [9front] removing python

[ori@eigenstate.org]

Quoth Daniel C. <bigatojj@gmail.com>:
> 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?

It's been usable enough to host its own development for
almost two years (the first import from hg was Jun 28 2019,
and every commit since the conversion has been done with
git9, for the sake of dogfooding and bragging rights).

But it takes experience with the program to find the rough
edges, poor design decisions, and bugs. And hg was working
well enough, so there was no pressure to rush a conversion,
and good reason to do it when things felt smooth, and all
the features and ui that we cared about felt reasonably
polished.

And, yes, it takes time for me to think about how to write
simple and clean implementations of algorithms without a
ton of special cases.