- who wants to deal with something low level like the boot loader,
should be also able to learn a simple programming language.
- Now the whole bootloader had become riddled with problems that hinders
booting and installation.
- Unfortunately someone was willing to do the destructive work.
The only possitive thing: only the bootloader was spoiled. One could
spoil the whole system with this posture and argumentation.
Rodrigo
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, Mark Linimon wrote:
On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 05:00:13AM +0000, Roderick wrote:
I would real want hear, why was the boat loader spoiled with Lua?
Because lua is so cool?
You are coming in several years late to a conversation.
- Having a scripting language makes working with the boot loader
code easier.
- The number of people who can code in lua is far higher than the
number who can code in Forth.
- The Forth code had become riddled with problems.
- Someone was willing to do the work.
mcl
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