<ansim...@tutanota.com> writes: > Hi, > > I'd like to bring up the following suggestion: > > Would it be desirable for the OpenBSD project to replace Perl with Lua > in the base system? A smaller base afforded to by Lua will reduce the > attack surface and complexity of the OpenBSD project as a whole. > > The source contains around 24000 lines of C. Under 64-bit Linux, the > Lua interpreter built with all standard Lua libraries takes 247K and > the Lua library takes 421K. - https://www.lua.org/about.html > > Lua is free open-source software, distributed under a very liberal > license (the well-known MIT license). > - https://www.lua.org/about.html > > I recognize that this will involve a massive multi-year undertaking and > I'd like to be part of the effort if it were to arise. > > Cheers, > ansimita
I'm not an OpenBSD developer. But as we are on this subject, IMHO if Perl is to be replaced it's better to be Python to take its place, which also has a very liberal license (BSD-style PSFL) and more importantly has a massive user base.
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