Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 16:21:24 +0100 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Rust: kernel vs user-space Message-ID: <FAB9B773-A51A-4208-A2C9-0CE0604A5235@gid.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <bd1419b2-5705-4ea6-8238-d98eb072cda0@FreeBSD.org> 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> <bd1419b2-5705-4ea6-8238-d98eb072cda0@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi, > 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 = 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. >=20 > Here is ldconfig in LUA, written more than 2 years ago, for example: >=20 > https://github.com/stesser/ldconfig/blob/main/ldconfig.lua And this is better than C because ...? (Asking for a friend :-) -- Bob Bishop rb@gid.co.uk
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