Hello, On Monday, July 26, 2021 07:03 PM IST, Garrett D'Amore <garr...@damore.org> wrote:
> In user space getting rid of the Perl dependency would help. This requires > effort beyond just removal though because someone would need to write C > equivalents. I am on a metered network connection, hence I've been unable to download the source yet to look into this myself. So, would you be able to comment on which components of illumos depend on Perl? > Btw I know some folks are bullish on new languages like rust or go. (I am a > big fan of go.) I think that I’d rather not see illumos adopt those in our > core code base though. I think they add to the cognitive load, the > maintainer load, and may impair portability. I agree wholeheartedly with the cognitive load part and hence the maintainer load part, there's also the case of those (Rust and Go) languages moving faster than ANSI-C which means there's always going to be efforts needed to keep that code updated to the latest versions of their respective languages. Best. ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8b661f3611aef44c-M51354bb87573eccc537b10dc Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
