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Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years (www.zdnet.com)

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[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mercurial is written in Python, Git in C.

Given the number of git instances, had it been implemented in Python, more CPU cycles / electricity would have been used.

Blah blah Mercurial is responsible for global warming. (I’m being sarcastic by the way - I love Mercurial).