[EdHominem]

> "We’re working with the git community to move more of these scripts to native cross-platform components written in C"

Sad. Rather than fix the root problem they rewrite the product in a less-agile language and require everyone to run opaque binaries.

They probably even think they're doing a good thing.

[Analemma_]

C is portable, bash scripts are not.

[EdHominem]

Bash is portable across other OSes... They could work on a good port. Or, remove some bash-isms from the code so it would work in another shell if that was an issue.

I understand they took the initially easy route. But it'll be harder for everyone to use that code now, including them.