[darcs-users] GHC and Darcs

[Patrick Waugh]

Good find.

I have to say that I have to agree.

I had to go back to the old version in order to get darcs-client (of
darcs-server) to work, because I don't have time to learn Haskell.
I'd really rather use darcs2, because of improvements, but oh well.

We program in C++, C#, or Java, and Haskell code really looks very
unmaintainable us compared to proper OO code.  But, to each their own.
 I think when even the quick sort example on the GHC site admits that
in reality it doesn't scale, and is really slow, etc. Anyone can see
that while for certain problems it might be a cool tool, it might not
be the be all end all.

I'd love it to be a big success because I think darcs itself is a move
in the right direction.

Further, if darcs were in C++, or Java, we'd happily get involved in
development and maintanence as it is what we want without the
headaches of SVN or CVN.

Patrick


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I dunno if anyone else has seen these: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DarcsEvaluation> (and <http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6u3zm/ghc_developers_plan_to_migrate_from_darcs/>.
>
> "On the 23rd July 2008 an IRC meeting on the #ghc channel decided to make a serious effort to replace Darcs, due to all the problems described above. The logs of that meeting are available in full at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/wiki/IRC_Meetings/ghc-metting-2008-07-23.log, but the main conclusions were:
>
>    * The GHC developers have sufficient problems with Darcs that a change would be beneficial"
> ...
> "Disadvantages to staying with darcs:
>
>    * Uncertain future: no critical mass of hackers/maintainers. The technical basis is not well enough understood by enough people.
>
> Reason for elimination: persistent performance and algorithmic problems, see above."
>
> --
> gwern
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