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Aperockyyesterday at 11:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

> A pretty fun experiment and I think we can shape this into something truly useful to the whole community.

Agree with first half of this sentence, we should all have fun with experiments.

> It was never based on a linkable and reentrant library, but instead on a "Unix" philosophy of chaining together simpler commands, which means that it's difficult to use it in long running processes without fork/exec overhead for everything.

Ahhh now we have philosophical disagreement in the only place in the entire article that says "why". Unix is a feature, it's arguably more important in current time: https://aperocky.com/blog/post.html?slug=unix-philosophy-age...


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Levitatingyesterday at 11:28 PM

You cut that citation conveniently short.

> It was never based on a linkable and reentrant library, but instead on a "Unix" philosophy of chaining together simpler commands, which means that it's difficult to use it in long running processes without fork/exec overhead for everything.

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MBCooktoday at 12:36 AM

Isn’t git already just an interface over libgit? How is that different?

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