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Date:      Mon, 5 Aug 2024 15:32:17 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>, 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)
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On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> --------
> 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 :-)
>

Lua's been in the base since I imported it for the boot loader, though...

Warner

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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM Poul-Henning Kamp &lt;<a href="mailto:phk@phk.freebsd.dk">phk@phk.freebsd.dk</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">--------<br>
Steffen Nurpmeso writes:<br>
&gt; Cy Schubert wrote in<br>
&gt;  &lt;<a href="mailto:704D020F-78A4-4926-AE3C-41F7FD619A89@cschubert.com" target="_blank">704D020F-78A4-4926-AE3C-41F7FD619A89@cschubert.com</a>&gt;:<br>
&gt;  |On July 31, 2024 10:49:52 AM PDT, Bakul Shah &lt;<a href="mailto:bakul@iitbombay.org" target="_blank">bakul@iitbombay.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;  |&gt;All this talk won&#39;t lead to anything much so a suggestion to<br>
&gt;  ..<br>
&gt;  |Sorry for being late to the party. Last day of vacation; picking up \<br>
&gt;  |phone reading this thread.<br>
&gt;  |<br>
&gt;  |Like much in this business (been doing this stuff for about 50 years \<br>
&gt;  |now) there is a cohort unwilling to roll up their sleeves and put some \<br>
&gt;  |skin in the game, expecting others already with long todo lists to \<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Most user space tools could be written in lua.<br>
<br>
That /exact/ same argument was made for Perl :-)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Lua&#39;s been in the base since I imported it for the boot loader, though...</div><div><br></div><div>Warner </div></div></div>

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