[akira2501]

> it's Git developers wanting to use Rust.

They're full time developers exclusively for git? How long have they been doing this? What is the set of their contributions to date? Of the total set of developers how many of them want this?

Is their set of desires anything more than "lets use Rust?" Is there a specific set of new functionality that would depend on it? New use cases that could be served with it? Is there even a long term plan for "new new C code" at some date?

I sense disaster fomented by poorly articulated goals.

> Also, there's already a separate from-scratch re-implementation of git in Rust (gitoxide).

Sounds perfect. Then each project can maintain the focus on their core language and not potentially take several steps backwards by hacking two incompatible pieces together with no roadmap.

[semiquaver]

  > They're full time developers exclusively for git?

"Exclusive" is a bit silly but yes, most of the people discussed in this article are paid to develop Git full time.

[akira2501]

By whom?

[maximilianburke]

GitHub

[akira2501]

The people who are trying to commercialize the product? It's interesting that with all this money all they do is send "their developers" into the mailing list to push the product and everyone else in their own direction.

Who owns github again?

[maximilianburke]

You asked who is pushing this. The answer is people who are paid full time to work on Git. These are Git developers. Their names are mentioned in the article, it is not hard to look up what these people have done, what they are doing now, and who they work for.

What are you trying to get at? It's not a conspiracy theory, it's people who just want to be able to be more effective at getting things done.