Counting Objects

#1

Post by jssjr » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 4:04 PM UTC

Counting Objects
githubengineering.com

Re: Counting Objects

#2

Post by joshmlewis » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:08 PM UTC

The illustrations look like they were done in Paper. Does anyone know if that's right or not?

Re: Counting Objects

#3

Post by maxmcd » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:18 PM UTC

joshmlewis wrote: post #2

The illustrations look like they were done in Paper. Does anyone know if that's right or not?

Yep, looks like you are correct: http://news.fiftythree.com/post/118777260503/introducing-thi...

Re: Counting Objects

#4

Post by 0x400614 » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:32 PM UTC

So does GitHub hire C engineers? Git is implemented in C.

Re: Counting Objects

#5

Post by tmm1 » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:40 PM UTC

0x400614 wrote: post #4

So does GitHub hire C engineers? Git is implemented in C.

Yes, much of GitHub's core infrastructure is written in C.

Re: Counting Objects

#6

Post by 0x400614 » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:45 PM UTC

tmm1 wrote: post #5

0x400614 wrote: post #4

So does GitHub hire C engineers? Git is implemented in C.

Yes, much of GitHub's core infrastructure is written in C.

That's awesome. You don't find many people that enjoy writing in C. I assumed it was Ruby.

Re: Counting Objects

#7

Post by Chris911 » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:48 PM UTC

0x400614 wrote: post #4

So does GitHub hire C engineers? Git is implemented in C.

Look at the bottom of the blog post for commits involved in merging these changes upstream for Git 2.0. They are all from vmg.

Re: Counting Objects

#8

Post by OJFord » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 7:11 PM UTC

This is awesome. I absolutely love engineering blogs like this.

There's no real reason for companies to educate external devs/hobbyists/students like this, but some do, and it's really awesome.

Re: Counting Objects

#9

Post by jsprogrammer » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 7:12 PM UTC

0x400614 wrote: post #4

So does GitHub hire C engineers? Git is implemented in C.

"so we ported his C++ implementation to C to be backwards compatible"

Re: Counting Objects

#10

Post by artursapek » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 7:20 PM UTC

OJFord wrote: post #8

This is awesome. I absolutely love engineering blogs like this. There's no real reason for companies to educate external devs/hobbyists/students like this, but some do, and it's really awesome.

The reason is recruiting, and it's effective.