Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 14:27:14 +0200 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> To: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: LUA ERROR: memory allocation error: block too big Message-ID: <38B67BE3-83D9-4B84-B2A4-B1E4D6145D95@punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <CACNAnaHeUTD7TffY8Lacgb-oGdjOni-CXzJrkNQrbG5pJnZHnA@mail.gmail.com> References: <9c5739d4-c10c-74a0-0f69-6b4cdc3e0dd7@studiokaraoke.co.id> <CACNAnaHeUTD7TffY8Lacgb-oGdjOni-CXzJrkNQrbG5pJnZHnA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi all, to add to the argument made by Kyle: > Am 03.06.2020 um 14:56 schrieb Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>: > As an aside, I'd appreciate it if other folks in this thread could > simply stop dumping all over the many many many hours of work that > were put into getting lua into shape to replace the high-quality forth > that was already in place. The reality is that lua won a popularity > contest long ago [outside of a FreeBSD context][ and lowers the barrier > to being able to hack on our loader menus, which should be viewed as a > great thing. I was equally annoyed at first because I happen to know a good deal of Forth (and use HP calculators ;-) and my reasoning was like „Lua is just as exotic as Forth so people need to learn the basics of a new language, anyway - why make *me* relearn everything?“ But in private conversation at one EuroBSDCon I learned that the „bus factor“ of the old bootloader (i.e. how many people have to be overrun by a bus to make that part of the project unmaintainable because there is zero knowledge left) was probably 2. Which is a perfectly good reason to replace a piece of software with a new one that hopefully more people understand. As for the choice of language I am actually pretty agnostic and willing to learn whatever is needed to get a particular task done. Just my 2ct. Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Patrick M. Hausen .infrastructure Kaiserallee 13a 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. +49 721 9109500 https://infrastructure.punkt.de info@punkt.de AG Mannheim 108285 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Egeling, Daniel Lienert, Fabian Steinhome | help
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