Isn't it a bit disrespectful to assume someone on misc@ is going to write such a large diff?
> Maybe the OP could just go ahead and replace all the Perl code with Lua and > then ask for feedback from the other devs? That is the OpenBSD way, right? > If it really is a great idea, they’d all be really excited. In any case, it > would kill this thread. > > EZ > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Dec 31, 2019, at 1:22 PM, Daniel Corbe <dan...@corbe.net> wrote: > > > > I like where this thread is headed. > > > > To expand on this idea, maybe we should demonstrate how diversity and > > inclusiveness can work in an operating system via language choices. > > Why stop at TCL and LUA? Or even scripting languages in general. Why > > not Go, Rust, Haskell and Scala too? > > > > Hear me out. We can set up a raffle system so that each winner can > > write their winning tool in their language of choice. All the > > parallel development will even solve the "multi year effort" problem > > that was brought up by the original poster too. Nobody will mind > > having another 8 or 9 languages in the base system, right? > > >
