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Date:      Sun, 24 Aug 2014 23:51:01 -0700
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com>
Cc:        "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@freebsd.org>, "<freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "<dteske@FreeBSD.org>" <dteske@FreeBSD.org>, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>, Pedro Arthur <bygrandao@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Lua in the bootloader
Message-ID:  <11411DFA-5934-49EE-BBB0-AA88E0CA6E20@felyko.com>
In-Reply-To: <96E32478-5450-4A35-B68A-4791668AA701@ixsystems.com>
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On Aug 24, 2014, at 23:27, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com> wrote:
> 
> Again, no disagreement, though I do wonder how many Lua programmers FreeBSD has that will be able to hit the ground running as a result of this evolution.  Anyone?  Raise your hands!   I can’t raise mine - I’ve never used Lua. :)

Clearly it's somewhat popular since this isn't the first GSoC project with the object of integrating Lua with the boot loader.

NetBSD even tried to integrate Lua with kernel scripting, correctly calling it Lunatik. :-)

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Rui Paulo






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