Paul Wise wrote: >On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 7:42 AM Colin Watson wrote: > >> A memory-safe language with good testing support and a good testing >> culture would be great, though it does also need to work on every >> Debian architecture, which IIRC Rust doesn't quite; we've kicked >> around the idea of maybe a stripped-down Python in the past, > >This reminded me of Keith Packard's "Python for embedded systems", Snek: > >https://keithp.com/snek/
While that's a lovely thing for *really* small systems, if we're contemplating a switch then I think we'd be much better just using a *normal* Python from our own archive which we already know, maybe with just a reduced set of modules available in the installer, Let's not just jump from one limited special-case environment to another! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.
