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Date:      Mon, 05 Aug 2024 21:27:24 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
Cc:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Subject:   Re: The Case for Rust (in the base system)
Message-ID:  <202408052127.475LROnE067608@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20240805210149.nrkHN3j3@steffen%sdaoden.eu>
References:  <CAOtMX2hAUiWdGPtpaCJLPZB%2Bj2yzNw5DSjUmkwTi%2B%2BmyemehCA@mail.gmail.com> <vdmg5zocd6wqcwc2bvzvzqn4bii2pwdc2r4mgnisukfkboj6nf@f7lv5quu4fjx> <CAOtMX2iDK3uN_oQgzzZAdoOZCfNsnvpefeZvKoTCRmPBhZywzA@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfqB1%2B-8BkpKwKoCM%2BzM4mCOFy63yHr1Pco7MnT1DFkb4w@mail.gmail.com> <EF084C36-D2EA-4194-B30F-253B0E8D5B4D@iitbombay.org> <704D020F-78A4-4926-AE3C-41F7FD619A89@cschubert.com> <20240805210149.nrkHN3j3@steffen%sdaoden.eu>

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Steffen Nurpmeso writes:
> Cy Schubert wrote in
>  <704D020F-78A4-4926-AE3C-41F7FD619A89@cschubert.com>:
>  |On July 31, 2024 10:49:52 AM PDT, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
>  |>All this talk won't lead to anything much so a suggestion to
>  ..
>  |Sorry for being late to the party. Last day of vacation; picking up \
>  |phone reading this thread.
>  |
>  |Like much in this business (been doing this stuff for about 50 years \
>  |now) there is a cohort unwilling to roll up their sleeves and put some \
>  |skin in the game, expecting others already with long todo lists to \
>
> Most user space tools could be written in lua.

That /exact/ same argument was made for Perl :-)

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