Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 16:37:50 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rust: kernel vs user-space Message-ID: <bd1419b2-5705-4ea6-8238-d98eb072cda0@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <0.2.0-final-1725443552.800-0x2fa4dc@qmda.emu.st> References: <202409031532.483FW0If007252@critter.freebsd.dk> <7533543.20240904114624@yahoo.com> <0.2.0-final-1725440949.866-0xb4bb20@qmda.emu.st> <65ED39B7-099F-43FD-9F53-68286125A65E@FreeBSD.org> <0.2.0-final-1725443552.800-0x2fa4dc@qmda.emu.st>
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Am 04.09.24 um 11:52 schrieb Mark Delany: > On 04Sep24, David Chisnall apparently wrote: > >> There are lots of control-plane things that I'd love to see >> written mostly in Lua, > > It was remiss of me to not mention Lua given that it's already in the project. > > Yet another language which could make life easier, more productive and more accessible in > user-land. > > I'm not suggesting for an instant that any of these programs need rewriting, but one could > imagine that if commands like ifconfig, route, arp, ndp, ipfw (that is, programs which > take a lot of user input and do a lot of data manipulation but aren't super-critical on > the performance front) were written in a more accessible language, then it might attract > new developers without disenfranchising the core C developers. Here is ldconfig in LUA, written more than 2 years ago, for example: https://github.com/stesser/ldconfig/blob/main/ldconfig.lua
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