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I updated my calendar to revisit in 2045.

Or just improve the Perl version? There's no reason this needs to be written in Go.

> I don’t think the Git maintainers will consider adding Go as a dependency

Just re-write in C

This "just" carries a lot of weight.

And that's probably not enough: for example likely you'd need to reuse whatever Git uses to generates patch formats. It's not necessarily _hard_, but it's not "just" a language translation.

Maybe someone will create modernperl, à la modernc, to automatically port go to perl.

"Just"