Does anyone plan to use this?
Similarly, is there any momentum left for Cloudflare's EmDash? I can barely find any discussion after April.
Similarly, is there any momentum left for Cloudflare's EmDash? I can barely find any discussion after April.
> it has been nearly entirely written by agents and has not been used for realsies. It's probably currently unusably slow or completely broken in ways that are not exercised in the test suite.
Right now it's someone else's experiment that is still in the "might or might not pan out" stage.
There are a bunch of projects using the similar (not vibe coded, less fully featured) gitoxide project - there is demand for git-as-a-library.
The author of gitoxide is also working on GitButler (who worked on this project) and we're pushing both projects forward and actively using and developing Gitoxide as well. This is simply a different and hopefully complimentary approach to the same problem.
Sorry, no. Let me be candid and point out that this has achieved exactly nothing except lighting $8k on fire.
Put it this way: if I suggest to my boss, "I want to spend $8k of company money to port git to Rust to just see how many tests can pass in that project, even though I don't plan to develop new features with the project, and I don't care about adoption", he is going to shot down the idea in half a second and seriously question my competence.
Why not just make better Python bindings to libgit?
It's an organic success, hard to replicate. If at all, CF can only make people migrate with massive effort. Marketing effort, selling lots of snake oil in the process. WP wont just hop on the hot new thing, WP is the definition of the opposite. It works for them. Why change.
Git is the same on the other side. It requires maintenance and improvements, surgical and correct. No git maintainer has time to learn a gigantic new codebase and they will stick with what works for them. For git users there are no advantages. So similarly it would require a long time effort to push the project, building trust that it is somehow better, probably requiring Linus to say "it's great".