On Mon, 30 Dec 2019, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> <ansim...@tutanota.com> wrote: > > > A smaller base afforded to by Lua will reduce the > > attack surface and complexity of the OpenBSD project as a whole. > > 1) I think that is a baseless and irrelevant claim. > > 2) No. It is not about the claim, he is trying to sell lua, because lua should be everywhere, also in the bootloader (they bloated FreeBSDs bootloader by substituting forth with lua), also in tex, you are forced to install luatex with the bloat of "texlive". Lua means moon, from latin luna. Lua phanatics should be called lunatics. But there is also some python phanaticism. It is a scripting language more, the only new (horrible) thing seems to be that indentation has a meaning, it contains the whole tcl/tk as "tkinter" that alone should be enough for reasonable scripting. Rodrigo.
