On: Show HN: Git-Add–Interactive with Enhancements

[williamdclt]

I don’t think the Git maintainers will consider adding Go as a dependency and having commands in a new language.

Or at least, it would require first a massive effort to align the maintainers on the idea of a new language, like Rust in the Linux kernel

[xn → williamdclt]

I updated my calendar to revisit in 2045.

[imiric → williamdclt]

Or just improve the Perl version? There's no reason this needs to be written in Go.

[lucasoshiro → williamdclt]

> I don’t think the Git maintainers will consider adding Go as a dependency

Just re-write in C

[williamdclt → lucasoshiro]

This "just" carries a lot of weight.

And that's probably not enough: for example likely you'd need to reuse whatever Git uses to generates patch formats. It's not necessarily _hard_, but it's not "just" a language translation.

[xn → lucasoshiro]

Maybe someone will create modernperl, à la modernc, to automatically port go to perl.

[derintegrative → lucasoshiro]

"Just"