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Reflection in modern programming languages, such as https://facet.rs[`facet`], allows for more general object storage, diffing, and merging with a single procedural macro.
We believe that these recent advances have removed the last remaining roadblocks to a technical end that many have tried and failed to reach before: project data stored directly in verifiable Git objects.
+New porcelains around Git, and new extensions to the `git` CLI, are cheap to write.
+This is evident from the numerous `git` command extensions available today.
+By encoding all project metadata as Git objects, and by providing new tools for encoding data of arbitrary shapes as Git objects, this robust ecosystem of developer tools can extend into project metadata tools.
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== Values
In a 2017 Node Summit talk, https://youtu.be/Xhx970_JKX4?si=eZI1Sk355juRLAq8&t=105[Platform as a Reflection of Values], the following table of values is presented by Bryan Cantrill.