Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:38:58 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Interpreted language(s) in the base Message-ID: <AANLkTimReWhZGc%2Brmumjz=twZUxwb%2Bt9HzhGKeOtAdiz@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/8/16 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des at des.no>: > Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> writes: >> lua =A0 too "flavor of the day," not enough track record of stability, >> =A0 =A0 =A0 not enough installed base/proven utility > > You're wrong. =A0Lua has been around for ages and is especially widely > used as a game scripting engine. =A0It is not intended as a standalone > language, but as an embeddable scripting engine. =A0We could easily creat= e > our own scripting language based on lua with FreeBSD-specific functions, > and there would be no fear of interfering with third-party software, > because it wouldn't be called lua. It looks like this is rearing its head again elsewhere: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2009/10/24/msg002827.html http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/netbsd= /t127230760748 "Student Name: Lourival Vieira Organization: The NetBSD Foundation Organization Home Page: http://www.netbsd.org/ Mentor Name: Marc Balmer Title: Provide support for dynamic NetBSD kernel extensions using the Lua language - Lunatik/NetBSD Abstract: This project has the goal to develop a framework to provide support for dynamically extending the NetBSD kernel using the Lua programming language. I intend to allow adaptation of the kernel and its subsystems for different purposes at runtime, through download of Lua scripts and exposure of kernel internals to Lua. Moreover, this framework will provide support for rapid prototyping and experimentation with new algorithms and mechanisms inside the kernel." b.
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