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

On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

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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 :-)
>

Lua's been in the base since I imported it for the boot loader, though...

Warner