On 2019-12-30 18:07, ansim...@tutanota.com wrote:
Hi, I'd like to bring up the following suggestion: Would it be desirable for the OpenBSD project to replace Perl with Lua in the base system? A smaller base afforded to by Lua will reduce the attack surface and complexity of the OpenBSD project as a whole. The source contains around 24000 lines of C. Under 64-bit Linux, the Lua interpreter built with all standard Lua libraries takes 247K and the Lua library takes 421K. - https://www.lua.org/about.html Lua is free open-source software, distributed under a very liberal license (the well-known MIT license). - https://www.lua.org/about.html I recognize that this will involve a massive multi-year undertaking and I'd like to be part of the effort if it were to arise. Cheers, ansimita
I like lua as a whole, however it isn't extremely useful for system administration tasks.
Which I believe is likely the reason for Perl's inclusion. Edgar
