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There was an implementation of git in javascript a few years ago; it withered on the vine (I've been trying to salvage the code for an in-browser distributed sync thingy, but it's pretty crufty). Why should we expect anything different to happen with this one?

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There are several failed attempts. Most of them died because they were just side-projects and/or programmed in a monolithic manner and crumbled under their own weight. The two main devs on js-git are myself and Chris Dickinson. I'm working on it full time so it can have the attention it needs (hence the fundraiser) and Chris has a couple of failed attempts in the past and knows what bad areas to avoid.

There is nothing wrong with JavaScript itself that makes this infeasible.

why did it die? are there inherent problems with javascript that might make this infeasible, or did the project just fizzle?

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