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I enjoy reading libraries like this because git is seemingly ubiquitous. It’s used more than any project I will ever make. And although I know C and C++, it’s source is kinda hard to approach.

Js on the other hand is not for me so I can get a better sense about how it is that git works. I want to see how these fundamental tools are written so I enjoy these ports (even if they’re not perfect).

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I really have to second this. I am an avid source reader and when the project is in JS, dart, php, python and to some extent go it's really easy to quickly grok what is happening. C++, Java, Rust - not so much. Some of it has to with the syntax itself but often it has to do with how much indirection and decomposition is standard practice in the language. If I have to jump around to 5 files to see what a single function is doing, it's hard to grasp the bigger picture.

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