Re: The Case for Rust (in the base system)

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Steffen Nurpmeso writes:
> Cy Schubert wrote in
>  <704D020F-78A4-4926-AE3C-41F7FD619A89@cschubert.com>:
>  |On July 31, 2024 10:49:52 AM PDT, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
>  |>All this talk won't lead to anything much so a suggestion to
>  ..
>  |Sorry for being late to the party. Last day of vacation; picking up \
>  |phone reading this thread.
>  |
>  |Like much in this business (been doing this stuff for about 50 years \
>  |now) there is a cohort unwilling to roll up their sleeves and put some \
>  |skin in the game, expecting others already with long todo lists to \
>
> Most user space tools could be written in lua.

That /exact/ same argument was made for Perl :-)

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