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Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years (www.zdnet.com)
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[โ€“] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Imagine if their VCS operations were 10s of times less efficient ๐Ÿ˜‰

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[โ€“] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Most of the VCS ops in Hg are actually written in C.

GitHub is mostly written in Ruby, so that's not really a performance win.

Like I said, we're stuck with Git's UX, but we were never stuck with Hg's performance.