Re: [tlug] Darcs and the Lack of Haskell Programmers

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Dave Brown writes:
 > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:22:59PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 > > [2]  My theory is that git was originally a few low-level C programs
 > > for manipulating a fast object database, with the UI built up from
 > > scripts.  I think this heritage makes it likely that it is much better
 > > factored for the kind of abuse a server environment will dish out than
 > > the user-pandering programs like Darcs, Mercurial, and Bazaar.
 > 
 > Ironically, github saw large performance gains when they quit using the
 > C programs and switched to a pure-Ruby git library[1].

Surely you don't expect me to be surprised!  But ... what do you think
the odds are that they *could* switch to a pure-Ruby library for Darcs,
Mercurial, or Bazaar?