[philippeback]

I am busy with serious size Hadoop clusters as well, using a gazillion of technologies (including some Pharo on YARN mind you).

Nobody forces one to use Pharo and I actually find it indeed useful to have an FFI binding to libgit.

Pharo has had git support for years with git filetree. There is no urgent need for a built in tool. Iceberg is an integrated tool which is not even yet released for the version of Pharo it is intended for (7).

The project is useful to test drive UFFI significantly. As such it is a really good test bed for all kinds 7of data structures and callbacks etc. Coupled with the 64 bit VM + image it is even more so.

I am in the Pharo ecosystem as a long play. Expedient solutions are plentiful. But they all lack this QWAN in Pharo that makes it enjoyable to me.

I am interested in understanding how things do work. Pharo allows me to do it in a way that suits me.

Given the count of "me" above, it is clear that I follow my own path and I couldn't care less about popularity.

Truth be told, I find it somewhat useful to have a harder to approach community. It keeps the signal to npise ratio at an acceptable level.