Comment by bangaladore
6 days ago
I have a feeling that this code was developed before any of those languages were widely popular and before their package managers or packages were mature.
This file was written like 20 years ago.
6 days ago
I have a feeling that this code was developed before any of those languages were widely popular and before their package managers or packages were mature.
This file was written like 20 years ago.
Sure, I'm not trying to assign blame to Linus for deciding to write git in C, I'm saying that modern tooling (not C) would prevent the bug with reasonably high probability and that that's a factor when deciding what to do going forwards.