A lot of people dismiss Lua out of hand, "oh its just some game kiddy
scripters language"

far from it!

but I really can't see there being much need to choose a language for
the fork, this is as far as I understand it a fork that’s as close to
Debian without systemd

As people are seriously worried about ABI compatibility with udev (why?)
I'd rather be building /everything/ from source and damn ABI
compatibility... but hey wadda I know...
I really can't see lots of time being spent recreating the wheel in the
new "language of choice" its kind of a moot point....


On 06/12/14 06:50, John Morris wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 21:27 -0800, Isaac Dunham wrote:
>
>> I haven't tried Lua myself, but it looks fairly easy to learn, is widely
>> portable, is used for system tools (with bindings available for openrc
>> and systemd), and doesn't use much by way of system resources.
>> The garbage collector can be stopped and started explicitly.
> I'd also point out that lua isn't just lite, it is small enough that
> openwrt can put the thing into router environments which only have 4MB
> of flash total, kernel, userspace and all. Embedded is something worth
> keeping in mind, even if these days embedded usually means something at
> least as capable as a Pi. Still not as small as shell since everything
> that claims any relation to UNIX must already have that, but pretty
> darned small.
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1665952 Oct 30 09:59 /lib64/libperl.so.5.18.4
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1800480 Nov 3 08:27 /lib64/libpython2.7.so.1.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 216352 Oct 23 2013 /lib64/liblua-5.2.so
>
> Those are of course 64 bit binaries but the lua in my router is actually
> about the same at 204KB
>
>
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