Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 05:45:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r334939 - head/stand/lua Message-ID: <201806121245.w5CCjasC033630@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20180612115105.GB75210@FreeBSD.org>
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> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 08:07:23AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > ... > > The last articulated plan in arch@ was that LUA will be default in 12, and > > we plan to remove FORTH in 13. Last time I said it there in February, there > > was only email agreeing that I could find. This matches the in-person > > consensus poll I took at BSDcan as well. I think it would take a very > > extraordinary set circumstance and severe problems with LUA to change those > > plans. > > For the idiots among us, what's wrong the with FICL-based loader(8) and why > is it being replaced with Lua one? The number of forth programmers on the planet has diminished to the point trying to maintain and/or enhance the FreeBSD boot loader by either the project or down stream projects and vendors has sadly approached the high pain threshold. Oddly, I now have to learn lua :-) Which is probably not a bad thing. Perhaps my limited forth understanding may become useful in 2037 <:-) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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