Re: Rust: kernel vs user-space

On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 11:53 AM Mark Delany <x9k@charlie.emu.st> wrote:
> 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.

Just do not change ifconfig to ip (and other basic networking tools)
like Linux did :D :D :D

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