Facebook open sources flint, a C++ linter written in D

[Jay Norwood]

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1yts5n/facebook_open_sources_flint_a_c_linter_written_in/

Somewhere in that thread was a mention of facebook moving away
from git because it was too slow.  I thought it was interesting
and found this info on the topic ...  They rewrote some sections
of Mercurial to make it scale better, and got it working faster
than git in their environment.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/