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Author: Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Google abandons UEFI in Chromebooks
Am Montag, 30. Oktober 2017 schrieb Didier Kryn:
> Le 30/10/2017 à 08:44, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp a écrit :
> > Am Montag, 30. Oktober 2017 schrieb J. Fahrner:
> >> https://osseu17.sched.com/event/ByYt/replace-your-exploit-ridden-firmware-with-linux-ronald-minnich-google
> > Nice. But it they suffer from the "not invented here"-syndrome: instead of using prooven good busysbox, they rewrite userspace in GO .. oops, who "invented" Go and wants to push it to the users?
> >
>
>      Nik, Though I agree that Busybox is proven good, it remains that 
> the said system is more than an OS and is to run at least one 
> application on top of Busybox. This application must be written in some 
> language.
>       Busybox provides interpreted languages, Ash, Hush and Awk, but I 
> doubt they would be a good choice for a complex application. The 
> application should rather be written in some compiled language and one 
> cannot deny the author the choice of this language, provided it is open 
> source. You know what my preferred language would be, but, from what 
> I've briefly read about Go, it seems to be based on not so bad rationale.


Hi Didier,

please look at the presentation, 2. slide: it says "This is to a shell prompt in Linux" and "All userland written in Go", so it's not about any application "on top of this written in go", but plain busybox rewritten in Go.

Nik



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