Make BFG cross platform and easy to use.

rtyley / bfg-repo-cleaner

Removes large or troublesome blobs like git-filter-branch does, but faster. And written in Scala

https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

GNU General Public License v3.0

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Open Genuifx opened 3 years ago

Genuifx commented 3 years ago

BFG is an amazing tool. But does not easy to use for the web developer.

Is there possible to migrate to Node.js or Deno?

rschristian commented 3 years ago

The JVM (which includes Scala) already is cross-platform, in fact, that's it's major selling point and has been since the 90's.

Why would the tool be rewritten? What's the benefit there?

Genuifx commented 3 years ago

@rschristian Setup JVM may not easy for non-java developers, why not build it to WASM?

rschristian commented 3 years ago

Setup isn't easy? It's just installing the JRE. That's it.

Edit: Even more importantly, WASM is for the browser. This is not a browser-based tool. That doesn't make sense.