On 2010-02-14, Christoph Schied <christoph.sch...@uni-ulm.de> wrote: > git's architecture is is nicely layered so that one can use very > lowlevel stuff but one also can combine it to more comfortable tools > like git does it. The bloat you are talking about is mostly in small > scripts that are layered above git core functionality. And mercurial > does have many "bloat" and plugins in its core distribution as well. And > i think every suckless-alarm-bell should ring when you merely can hear > the word python ;)
Don't be absurd. Python is a fairly reasonable high level language. It makes it easy to write dense and readable code. It definitely has some speed and memory disadvantages over C, but those aren't a major issue when it comes to Mercurial. The CPU intensive parts of the core are written in C, and the end result is a very fast and efficient VCS. As for bloat, as you've mentioned, Mercurial's bloat is mostly factored out into plugins. The core is generally simple, elegant, and easy to understand. There are definitely advantages to git's core, but simplicity is not among them. There may be simple ways to do a lot of common tasks, but finding them is nearly impossible. The whole suite is very, well, GNU.
