It used to be a truism that a programmer could write FORTRAN code in any language. Now it appears that they are trying to write Python code in every language.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM Brian Inglis via Cygwin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2025-09-10 16:39, Randall S. Becker via Cygwin wrote: > > On September 10, 2025 6:30 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: > >> On 2025-09-09 10:29, ASSI via Cygwin wrote: > >>> Andrew Schulman via Cygwin writes: > >>>> On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 10:23:13 +0200, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin wrote: > >>>>> Since git has decided to EOL itself by a switch to RUST (which poses > >>>>> a chicken and egg problem for bootstrapping, among other technical, > >>>>> political and licensing issues), > >> > >> What appear to be the remaining licensing and political issues? > >> > >>>> For those of us who aren't in the know, could you please provide some > >>>> links to git's plans and what the issues are? A search on "git rust" > >>>> turns up a lot of stuff but it's hard to know what's relevant. > >> > >>> TL;DR: This did not happen (not yet anyway) and it won't happen in the > >>> near future either. > >>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250904-b4-pks-rust-breaking-change-v1-0- > >>> [email protected]/ > >> I consider 2026H2 - a year - pretty near, with possibly another year > and a half of > >> security patches, giving us 1-2.5 years, realistically 1.5 years to > decide whether we > >> could get rust working, or should migrate to a git successor. > > > > Unfortunately for the rest of us non-Rust people, successors appear to > be written > > In Rust also. This does not make me feel good about the future of DVCS > systems. > > Especially when people seem to be reinventing the wheel rewriting existing > code > in this decade's systems programming language: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Systems_programming_languages > > -- > Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada > > La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved > non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to > add > mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to > cut > -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry > > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
