Re: Rust: kernel vs user-space

On 04Sep24, David Chisnall apparently wrote:

> There are lots of control-plane things that I'd love to see
> written mostly in Lua,

It was remiss of me to not mention Lua given that it's already in the project.

Yet another language which could make life easier, more productive and more accessible in
user-land.

I'm not suggesting for an instant that any of these programs need rewriting, but one could
imagine that if commands like ifconfig, route, arp, ndp, ipfw (that is, programs which
take a lot of user input and do a lot of data manipulation but aren't super-critical on
the performance front) were written in a more accessible language, then it might attract
new developers without disenfranchising the core C developers.


Mark.