Re: Rust: kernel vs user-space

Am 04.09.24 um 11:52 schrieb Mark Delany:
> 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.

Here is ldconfig in LUA, written more than 2 years ago, for example:

	https://github.com/stesser/ldconfig/blob/main/ldconfig.lua