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Date:      Tue, 6 Aug 2024 07:29:06 +0900
From:      Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Subject:   Re: The Case for Rust (in the base system)
Message-ID:  <20240806072906.bc206fa9b77ffc949317bd19@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
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On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 15:32:17 -0600
Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 
> > --------
> > Steffen Nurpmeso writes:
> > > Cy Schubert wrote in
> > >  <704D020F-78A4-4926-AE3C-41F7FD619A89@cschubert.com>:
> > >  |On July 31, 2024 10:49:52 AM PDT, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
> > wrote:
> > >  |>All this talk won't lead to anything much so a suggestion to
> > >  ..
> > >  |Sorry for being late to the party. Last day of vacation; picking up \
> > >  |phone reading this thread.
> > >  |
> > >  |Like much in this business (been doing this stuff for about 50 years \
> > >  |now) there is a cohort unwilling to roll up their sleeves and put some
> > \
> > >  |skin in the game, expecting others already with long todo lists to \
> > >
> > > Most user space tools could be written in lua.
> >
> > That /exact/ same argument was made for Perl :-)
> >
> 
> Lua's been in the base since I imported it for the boot loader, though...
> 
> Warner

And Forth was introduced for loader prior to lua and still not
deleted. :-)
I think it would be removed sometime in the future once no one
complains about loader.lua.

-- 
Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>



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