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Re-writing Git in C++? Can't tell if you're trolling or not. http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus

Yet given the actual state of Gtk development, even Linus is using C++ nowadays via Qt.

Argument 1 is nontechnical and by someone who does not have a lot of experience writing userspace software.

Argument 2 is valid, but only applies to kernels, and also only applies to 1992 (it works a lot better now).

My comment wasn't meant to knock C++; it was to point out that Linus' opposition to the language is well-documented, and an official git-rewrite in C++ is very unlikely.

Linus is almost entirely uninvolved with git these days, though. `git log --author=Torvalds` finds no commits in 2015 or so far this year, three patches in 2014, none in 2013, five in 2012, four in 2011... if the git core team felt using C++ was a possible course, Linus would not be involved in the decision.

(That's probably why I misunderstoood your statement an argument against C++ on its own merits.)

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