Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 12:01:49 -0400 From: Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rust: kernel vs user-space Message-ID: <BACB8C4C-8D8F-4650-B6F5-7A60D2898326@digitaldaemon.com> In-Reply-To: <FAB9B773-A51A-4208-A2C9-0CE0604A5235@gid.co.uk> References: <FAB9B773-A51A-4208-A2C9-0CE0604A5235@gid.co.uk>
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Yeah=E2=80=A6 I second that question=E2=80=A6 (Not asking for a friend=E2=80=A6 :-) ) ManiaC++ Jan Knepper > On Sep 4, 2024, at 11:22, Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFHi, >=20 >> On 4 Sep 2024, at 15:37, Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>=20 >>> 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 pr= oject. >>> Yet another language which could make life easier, more productive and m= ore accessible in >>> user-land. >>> I'm not suggesting for an instant that any of these programs need rewrit= ing, but one could >>> imagine that if commands like ifconfig, route, arp, ndp, ipfw (that is, p= rograms which >>> take a lot of user input and do a lot of data manipulation but aren't su= per-critical on >>> the performance front) were written in a more accessible language, then i= t might attract >>> new developers without disenfranchising the core C developers. >>=20 >> Here is ldconfig in LUA, written more than 2 years ago, for example: >>=20 >> https://github.com/stesser/ldconfig/blob/main/ldconfig.lua >=20 > And this is better than C because ...? >=20 > (Asking for a friend :-) >=20 > -- > Bob Bishop > rb@gid.co.uk >=20 >=20
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