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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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