> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 08:07:23AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > ... > > The last articulated plan in arch@ was that LUA will be default in 12, and > > we plan to remove FORTH in 13. Last time I said it there in February, there > > was only email agreeing that I could find. This matches the in-person > > consensus poll I took at BSDcan as well. I think it would take a very > > extraordinary set circumstance and severe problems with LUA to change those > > plans. > > For the idiots among us, what's wrong the with FICL-based loader(8) and why > is it being replaced with Lua one?
The number of forth programmers on the planet has diminished to the point trying to maintain and/or enhance the FreeBSD boot loader by either the project or down stream projects and vendors has sadly approached the high pain threshold. Oddly, I now have to learn lua :-) Which is probably not a bad thing. Perhaps my limited forth understanding may become useful in 2037 <:-) -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
