Richard Laager said: > With the caveat that there is a LOT I don't know in this space, if it was my > call, I'd aim for an incremental conversion of ntpd to Rust and leave the > userspace tooling in Python. After the daemon is converted, I would > re-evaluate whether the userspace tooling should be converted.
Thanks. I have troubles with Python, so I think we should consider reworking the userspace too. I can use Python for small hacks. I get in trouble with large projects. I think the problem is that my brain is addicted to type checking and I can't keep track of the type of arguments/results. Friends who are smarter than I am report similar problems. They first told me about it many years ago before I had enough experience with large Python projects to appreciate what they were saying. Their summary was: It's hard to go back to code you haven't worked with in a while. ------------- There are 2 parts to a great ntpd cleanup. One is switching to Go/Rust/whatever. The other is restructuring the code to use threads. An incremental conversion to Rust/Go doesn't help the restructure. Maybe we should start over from scratch. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
