>It's MIT-licensed with a patent pledge that covers "the standard plus
>everything documented on MSDN":

Awesome. Thank you for the information, Isaac. I'm still suspicious of
the patent grant at this point. Microsoft's promises up to this point on
the subject have only covered the parts that they already released to an
ISO spec. When or if they give an actual RAND grant, we will see. In any
case, this bears watching. I still wouldn't use current state of Mono or
C# on Linux for concerns over liability, but this is very interesting.




On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 1:00 AM, chris <chris@???> wrote:

> 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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