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From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Introducing Rust into the Git project
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On 2024-01-11 01:12, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Another alternative (as discussed at Git Merge when we were last
> talking about Rust[8]), is requiring all Rust code to be optional for
> now.  If we choose to go that route, I think that means that (a) for
> existing components, we have both a Rust and a C implementation
> available, and (b) for new components (e.g. new top-level commands
> like git-replay), they can be Rust-only and those compiling without
> Rust just don't get them.

To me, this sounds like a horrible option, which is exactly what
I earlier referred to as introducing fragmentation.