Are you aware of the options for other languages to work with Hadoop already? Hadoop streaming which can work with any language. JRuby and Jython and any other Java VM language can be used. I think the energy and time to port to C would be better spent elsewhere.
On 1/29/07, Jared Dunne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi- I am a big fan of Lucene and sub projects and got a great taste of what Hadoop has to offer for Java developers at my last position. Is there any future work being considered for porting Hadoop to C with Ruby/Perl bindings similar to what Lucy is for Lucene? I would love to be able to use Hadoop from Ruby.. [I have read about Starfish, but it seems to be missing some things (namely distributed reduce jobs).] Jared-
