On Mon, 26 Jul 2021, [email protected] wrote:
The same applies (even more) for python. And ksh93 has been obsoleted in Linux, so guess what happens next in the foreseeable future...
Linux is a kernel (which I modify, compile, and use in environments without bash or ksh93) so I have no idea what you are talking about above.
what i can't understand is the fascination people from our trade have to constantly move to newer, fancier, shinier programming systems/languages, especially when what exists is perfectly good if used by following the philosophy of that environment.
If Illumos supports Rust in kernel, and for security-sensitive areas, then that will likely attract new developers who are likely to contribute to the system.
For any free operating system, there are only so many seats at the table when it comes to core developers. This means that Linux does not really have much more core developers than FreeBSD or Illumos. Linux has a great many contributors to kernel code but much of it is for the large profusion of filesystems and device drivers and contributions must pass through a few core developers who are empowered to bless and merge code.
i noticed a marked focus from the developers of the core system to eliminate code which isn't being used, or can't be used, or won't be used anymore (e.g. sparc support), but at the same time i am appalled by the decisions taken by certain illumos distributions (read omniosce) toward not maintaining leanness (they even use bash as the root shell).
There is really no reason to assault OmniOSce given that its maintainers recently did a whole lot of excellent work to update ksh93 for Illumos at large. If bash is already in the system then using it for a login shell does not make a system less lean. The base install of OmniOSce is pretty small by today's standards.
OmniOS /bin/sh is still ksh93. The root shell is for interactive logins.
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