Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System
Hi Theo, Noted. Thanks for the consideration, ansimita Dec 31, 2019, 00:15 by dera...@openbsd.org: > wrote: > >> A smaller base afforded to by Lua will reduce the >> attack surface and complexity of the OpenBSD project as a whole. >> > > 1) I think that is a baseless and irrelevant claim. > > 2) No. >
Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System
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
