On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 01:26:28AM +0100, Tom Zander wrote: > On Monday, 5 February 2018 00:55:34 CET Unman wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 08:14:57PM +0100, 'Tom Zander' via qubes-users > wrote: > > > * Having nothing but python APIs for your operating system is something > > > that makes no sense. Python was never meant for servers, or even big > > > applications. Finding a full-stack python developer is more rare than > > > finding a Bitcoin C++ developer. > > > > I'm not sure how much of this is just trolling. > > It is not trolling. > > > You obviously dont mean uses like Google, DropBox, YouTube, Reddit etc. > > Perhaps you dont know about Eve Online? Mercurial? Blender? > > Absolutely none of these use python for anywhere near the same percentage of > components as Qubes does.
NONE of these? Afaik Eve and Mercurial are all Python. The rest have been almost all Python at various points. > Google is a good example, for instance they shipped proto-buffers. Which > have bindings in a long list of languages (20 or so). > > Check wikipedia for those examples, reality is much more sobering that you > think. > > > There are exceptional developers working in many companies -Google, > > NASA, Astra Zeneca, to name a few, all using python. The fact that > > you arent comfortable with it is fine, but not a reason to reject it. > > Thats moving the goalpost. Naturally there are many experienced python > developers. > > Let me re-state the point for your benefit; > > Having nothing but python bindings and having practically all your > components written in python is without a doubt very realistically limiting > the amount of people you can get hacking on Qubes. Add on top of that the > content matter, which is highly complex and in many cases includes > networking or cross-VM communication or hard-core linux components and you > limit the amount of people even more, to the extend I mentioned above. > You may be right, but I'm simply not convinced. That, of course, is irrelevant. It's a choice for Joanna and Marek to make. You are, of course, free to rewrite Qubes and its components in a language you're comfortable with. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20180205013302.mgps5nqmrfdlzpj7%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
