Strategic Thinking (was: Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components)

[Wojciech Puchar]

>
> I come from the corporate/government environment, having spent most of
> my time there. Large datacentres (Canadian spelling), large machines,
> large networks of machines, large networks. In this environment, today,
> virtualization in all forms are the platforms of business. Migrations
> from physical platforms running AIX, Solaris and Linux to either Linux
> on VMware or Linux containers is where they are putting 100% of their
> effort. The language of choice is mostly Java. Much of the Java is
> canned too. What used to be implemented on LAMP stacks is now being
> implemented using microservices. The platform of choice for
> microservices is Linux. Stripped down Linux primarily capable of

Just as fashion changes.
>
> IMO we have strengths that can immediately be capitalized on, like the
> Linuxulator. If anything could be in base it might be go, the language

What do you mean "capitalized"?

FreeBSD already allow to do all mentioned things, but anyway someone 
who use FreeBSD is usually smart enough  to not blidnly copy what is now 
trendy.