alt Hacker News> They all seem to be rewrites for the sake of "performance".
And yet this performs dramatically worse.
A slower, untested, incomplete git implementation, all for the low low price of $10-$15,000.
And don’t forget it wasted a bunch of human time in the process.
So if someone mentioned somewhere else there is already a Rust port a group is doing somewhere. How much could they have accomplished with this much money and time in software development resources?
Ok. AI can seemingly port stuff if you don’t test it thoroughly. I think that’s already been proven. At this point I’m seeing less and less value from these kind of things. I’m sure it was fun for the author, but how does it help other people?
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But... it's memory safe. Not that git has any important memory issue, but now people with skill issues in C can contribute to it without breaking stuff.
It's not for performance, it's for Rust.
If the first stereotype of Rust programmers is announcing that a project is in Rust before any other desirable software property (e.g. stable, performant, etc), the second stereotype is that Rust programmers love rewriting stuff in Rust, just for the sake of Rust.
(The 2.a. corollary is that they love rewriting GPL projects specifically and downgrading them to MIT/Apache)